From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 6 0:24:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from filer.fr.clara.net (filer.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF51A37B401 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 00:24:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@fr.clara.net) Received: from munster.noc.fr.clara.net (munster.noc.fr.clara.net [212.43.195.20]) by filer.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F293127; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:24:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:24:40 +0200 (CEST) From: James X-Sender: james@munster.noc.fr.clara.net To: Bad Mamma Jamma Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet and ftp hanging In-Reply-To: <008801c11e30$ac8c1690$1200a8c0@tbird> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I usually find that this is due to the /etc/hosts and the reverse for each machine that you connect too or from, try a "host machine_ip' on both machines and see what is returned, if nothing, add the correct info into /etc/hosts. James On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Bad Mamma Jamma wrote: > > Hi there, I have a newly setup FreeBSD box running 4.3-STABLE and when I attemtpt to telnet to it from anywhere on my LAN, it hangs for about a 60 seconds, then finally connects. This also happens with ftp. I've never had this problem before. Am I missing something? > > Thanks, Mike > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message