From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 11:17:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398FC14E83 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:17:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA25734; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:14:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:14:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Cid Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Machine not responding In-Reply-To: <370EDBF3.E5C13004@nac.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Cid wrote: > Hi...I have a dilema with FreeBSD-3.1...my problem is I'll try to > remotely access the machine via telnet, ftp...or what not...and it'll > connect but wont give me a login prompt...now I can ping it and it > returns a good 112ms(I'm accessing it from home) and I cant login into > it. I can reset the machine and it'll work fine afterwards...This is > the second time it has happened...Maybe you could tell me how I would go > about fixing this or what is wrong... Perhaps it's taking a while to respond? Does your home IP address reverse-resolve? Try running 'host ' on the FreeBSD machine. If it takes forever to respond then that's your problem; contact the ISP responsible for and ask them to fix their reverse DNS resolution. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message