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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 1995 18:56:48 +1100 (EST)
From:      Peter Marelas <maral@webnet.com.au>
To:        Kenneth Merry <ken@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 951104-SNAP - Can't telnet in
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.951116185608.13988A-100000@iis>
In-Reply-To: <199511160151.UAA06160@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu>

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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?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken
> -- 
This is just a hunch, but try adding a domain name to /etc/sysconfig

Peter




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