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To: Joe McGuckin <joe@ns.via.net>
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Subject: Re: Telnet problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Aug 95 13:47:35 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 14:04:25 -0700
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>
>I have a machine on a subnet (mask is 255.255.255.224) that I want to 
>use as a firewall.
>
>I can telnet into the machine from the internet ok, but other machines
>on the local exposed net or the internal net can't connect to the
>telnet daemon.
>
>I get:
>
>    fw: {4} telnet fw
>    Trying 205.162.31.34...
>    Connected to fw.vcsnet.com.
>    Escape character is '^]'.
>
>and it just hangs...
>
>Any suggestions?

   This looks like a local nameserver problem. Telnetd is trying to do the
host lookup and is hanging. After 2 minutes or so it should give up and
proceed with "login:".

-DG