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Date:      Mon, 16 Oct 2000 19:26:06 +0200
From:      Volker Stolz <stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Xavier_Alfeir=E1n_S=2E?= <xavier@labna.itmerida.mx>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: trouble when doing telnet...
Message-ID:  <20001016192606.A12726@agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.93.1001016115050.14522A-100000@labna.itmerida.mx>; from xavier@labna.itmerida.mx on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:02:10PM -0500
References:  <Pine.A32.3.93.1001016115050.14522A-100000@labna.itmerida.mx>

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:02:10PM -0500, Xavier Alfeirán S. wrote:
> Hi, I have a question, when I connect via Telnet to the Freebsd server,
> i got connection normaly, but the login question takes a long time to
> appear. 
>  I checked the resolv.conf file, and it looks fine to me, but as root I
> receive a lot of messages of error from natd (the server is used to do
> nat to a LAN). The messages are these:
> Oct 16 11:35:32 chichen natd[125]: failed to write packet back(Host is 
> down)
>  But everything works fine, just that thing about the login message, that
> I thought that was because the DNS but i repeat, is well configured.

Nope, seems you´ve really got a problem doing reverse lookups. Let
me guess: When you´re finally connected and do a "who" you only get the
IP from the host you´re connected from. Can you give the contents of
your resolv.conf and netstat -rn, together with any natd-related stuff
you´re doing?
-- 
Volker Stolz * stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de * PGP + S/MIME


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