Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 20:57:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii> To: joe@ns.via.net (Joe McGuckin) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet problem Message-ID: <199508030357.UAA15360@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <199508022047.NAA01741@ns.via.net> from "Joe McGuckin" at Aug 2, 95 01:47:35 pm
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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?
>
> -joe
>
Hi,
Make SURE that you have a running ip-lookup (in-addr.arpa) around. I've had
the same problem before.
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