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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject: telnet probs
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With a 950726-SNAP system I'm seeing the following telnet/telnetd
strangeness:

I'm logging in via telnet (slip, via netblazer, then ethernet)

scunix> telnet gil
Trying 137.226.31.2...
Connected to gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE.
Escape character is '^]'.

   FreeBSD (gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de) (ttyp3)


And if I wouldn't type a <CR> at this point it would hang until timeout
after 300s.


The other strange thing I often observed is that when
doing a telnet login the first time into a host that was
freshly booted (I'm not sure if this is a necessary condition)
I'm getting a 

Connection closed by foreign host.

immediately. Retrying a second time then gives me the connection.


--Chris Christoph P. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de