From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 06:51:31 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA21119 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 06:51:31 -0800 Received: from ulc199.residence.gatech.edu (root@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu [199.77.162.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA21112 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 06:51:29 -0800 Received: (from ken@localhost) by ulc199.residence.gatech.edu (8.6.11/8.6.11) id JAA13457; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 09:51:14 -0500 From: Kenneth Merry Message-Id: <199511161451.JAA13457@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: 951104-SNAP - Can't telnet in To: maral@webnet.com.au (Peter Marelas) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 09:51:13 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Peter Marelas" at Nov 16, 95 06:56:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1670 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Kenneth Merry wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone know the obviuos setting (which I'm overlooking) > > > to let me telnet into a 2.1.0-951104-SNAP machine? The ether > > > card works (the machine was installed via ftp), it's up and > > > running (can login via console), it pings, but if I try to > > > telnet into it I never get a connection. telnet sits there > > > until it timeouts. I also tried telnetting to port 7 and 25, > > > same result. I tried rlogin, no go. > > I have the same problem! It seems that this may somehow be related > > to inetd, but I can't be sure. I can't ftp, rlogin, telnet, talk, etc., to > > the machine, even via localhost. The crazy thing is, the network is > > running fine. I can telnet and ftp out, and things that aren't cranked up > > via inetd (e.g. named, sshd, sendmail) work just fine. > > Any connection that's made to the machine on a port handled by > > inetd just hangs. The sockets stay in the CLOSE_WAIT state (from netstat). > > > > generic info: 2.1.0-951104-SNAP, SMC Elite 16C Ultra, DES and Kerberos > > distributions installed. > > > > I don't think this is kerberos related, since it shows up with > > finger, talk, etc. > > Does anyone have any ideas on this? > > > This is just a hunch, but try adding a domain name to /etc/sysconfig > > Peter Hmm..what'll that do? I'm not running NIS, so setting the NIS domain name won't help..and my hostname is already fully qualified in /etc/sysconfig and in /etc/hosts. (i.e. hostname.subdomain.domain.edu) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu Disclaimer: I don't speak for GTRI, GT, or Elvis.