From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 3 22:02:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA02564 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:02:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA02515 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:02:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id SAA03627 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA16646; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:16:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:16:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Dhiraj Soni cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Dhiraj Soni wrote: > > Even if the machine is on and connected to network I cannot do > remote access on it .I can 't use any tool (telnet,ftp,finger,ping ..) > to see if it's up. Now if I use telnet from the local network to > machine it works and also then remote accessing also starts working. > > The thing is if you leave the machine for some time without > accessing it if disables remote access. Why? I wonder if this is a routing problem. Run 'netstat -rn' and make sure that checks out. Also try disabling routed in /etc/sysconfig. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major