From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 6:12:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from colossus.invictanet.co.uk (colossus.invictanet.co.uk [62.232.18.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 697B137BC21 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 06:12:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from martynr@invictanet.co.uk) Received: from harryhome (modem98.netkonect.net [194.164.208.98]) by colossus.invictanet.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA00547; Mon, 29 May 2000 14:12:28 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: From: "Martyn Routley" To: "Freebsd-Questions" Cc: "Chad Ziccardi" Subject: RE: ftp & telnet Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:12:32 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <39325C56.EA77009C@bellatlantic.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chad I love you! (figuratively speaking of course!!!!!) I updated hosts file on each machine and all is well. Martyn Routley ----------------------------------------------------- InvictaNet - The Internet in Plain English, Guaranteed http://www.invictanet.co.uk mailto:info@invictanet.co.uk phone: 0870 7402252 fax: +44 (0)1233 334001 ------------------------------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: Chad Ziccardi [mailto:zicc@bellatlantic.net] > Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 1:03 PM > To: support@invictanet.co.uk > Subject: Re: ftp & telnet > > > Customer Support wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I have just installed FreeBSD3.4 on a new server that I want to put online asap. > > > > My problem is that when I try to telnet or ftp to this server, the conection just sits and waits until it > > eventually times out. > > > > This happens when trying to connect from another FreeBSD machine (3.4 & 4.0) and also from a Win98 machine. > > > > All these machines are currently on a 192.168.* network and all other services (DNS, HTTPD etc)seem to work fine. > > > > Anyone have any ideas please? > > Perhaps the server is performing a dns lookup of the name, if nothin else, > add a generic name in /etc/hosts for the computer that is running > telnet/ftp, if I remember it *should* connect after the dns times out, > somewhere between 60-180 seconds I believe. > > --CZ > > Chad Ziccardi > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message