From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 8 14:50:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA04100 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:50:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA04095 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA01505; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:49:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:49:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Bill Grunfelder cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finger[2.2.1] & xylogics terminal server In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970408110438.00953c30@pop.cyberwar.com> 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 Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Bill Grunfelder wrote: > > I'm having a problem with FreeBSD 2.2.1 machines not being able to finger > a Xylogics Remote Annex 4000 terminal server. finger on 2.2.1 machines > seems to work fine with other hosts though, and no problem whatsoever, if > I use a 2.0.5, 2.1.0, or 2.1.5 machine to finger the terminal server. I've > tried machines that were upgraded to FreeBSD 2.2.1, and machines that were > installed with 2.2.1 from scratch. In either case, 49 out of 50 times I get: This is probably another escapade in the Annex tcp_extensions saga. Edit /etc/sysconfig and disable tcp_extensions. Someone really needs to give Annex some fixed code. :) > If I copy finger & libc.so.2.2 from a 2.1.5 machine, they work. I'd rather > not do that, is there another solution? Is anyone else having this problem? Hm, how odd. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major