From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 14:35:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16011 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:35:49 -0800 (PST) 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 OAA15952 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:35:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA03741; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:34:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:34:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: RCB cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd connectivity over ppp weirdness In-Reply-To: <199703141812.KAA00219@jaguar.cris.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 Fri, 14 Mar 1997, RCB wrote: > I have FreeBSD on my work machine and last night have installed it on > my home PC as well (converting both from Caldera Open Linux) (both > 2.1.7-RELEASE) > > >From home, I can make a PPP connection (dynamic IP) to an IP network, > and can perform all traditional ip functions, including > telnet/rlogin/ftp into machines, but when I try to rlogin to my work > FreeBSD box, a connection is made, but I'm never prompted for a > password -- the session 'freezes'. I did not have this problem when > connecting to my work FreeBSD machine from my home Linux box. Hm. There is a known bug where connecting twice to rsh in a short amount of time will jam the second session. Waiting 30s or so and trying again works fine. I don't know if this was fixed in 2.2 or not. > I experienced this back with 2.0.5 and earlier 2.1.X's, as well, and I > suspect that may be caused by dynamic ip addresses or the dynamic > domain name assigned to each connection. Perhaps the client/server is > blocking when attempting to resolve a domain name? Perhaps. Check with your DNS and make sure the dialup line has a proper reverse nameserver entry. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major