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by **Darryl Perr** » Wed, 08 Mar 2000 04:00:00

I have a mini-network with a P166 RedHat 6.0 system (brand new
install), and a celeron 533 Win98 System. I had it setup so that I
could telnet from my Win98 pc to my linux pc. It actually worked!

Anyhow, I was just trying it again last night, but now when I try to
telnet in to my redhat system, I get the redhat greeting, but no login
prompt.

this tells me that my network *IS* working, or I wouldn't get the
greeting, but then why is the logon prompt failing to appear? Is this
a problem with telnetd?

Remember, it worked once, but now it is not working. the only changes
I did were to compile dosemu. <dosemu is another issue I have!>

Might anybody shine some light on my problem?

TIA
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by **Tad** » Wed, 08 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Quote:> I have a mini-network with a P166 RedHat 6.0 system (brand new
> install), and a celeron 533 Win98 System. I had it setup so that I
> could telnet from my Win98 pc to my linux pc. It actually worked!

> Anyhow, I was just trying it again last night, but now when I try to
> telnet in to my redhat system, I get the redhat greeting, but no login
> prompt.

> this tells me that my network *IS* working, or I wouldn't get the
> greeting, but then why is the logon prompt failing to appear? Is this
> a problem with telnetd?

> Remember, it worked once, but now it is not working. the only changes
> I did were to compile dosemu. <dosemu is another issue I have!>

> Might anybody shine some light on my problem?

This is usually caused by the Linux box tring to reverse lookup your IP. Try
adding all the client machines to the /etc/hosts file and try again.

Tad

by **Vivek Gupt** » Wed, 08 Mar 2000 04:00:00

I had the same problem. I added the machine name is /etc/hosts.
If you are running nameserver then add it in nameserver.
Check /etc/nsswitch.conf. It should list file before dns for hostnames.

Vivek

> I have a mini-network with a P166 RedHat 6.0 system (brand new
> install), and a celeron 533 Win98 System. I had it setup so that I
> could telnet from my Win98 pc to my linux pc. It actually worked!

> Anyhow, I was just trying it again last night, but now when I try to
> telnet in to my redhat system, I get the redhat greeting, but no login
> prompt.

> this tells me that my network *IS* working, or I wouldn't get the
> greeting, but then why is the logon prompt failing to appear? Is this
> a problem with telnetd?

> Remember, it worked once, but now it is not working. the only changes
> I did were to compile dosemu. <dosemu is another issue I have!>

> Might anybody shine some light on my problem?

> TIA
> --
> -Regards,
> Darryl Perry
> *ia BBS|Sacramento, CA.|916-363-1830|1:203/363
> http://www.veryComputer.com/

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by **Malwar** » Thu, 09 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Hi Darryl,

> Anyhow, I was just trying it again last night, but now when I try to
> telnet in to my redhat system, I get the redhat greeting, but no login
> prompt.

With the DNS (especially reverse lookups) not working it will take a
good while for the login prompt to appear. The TCP wrapper even might
drop the connection after the failed reverse lookup depending on what
you specified in /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}

Malware

by **David Efflan** » Thu, 09 Mar 2000 04:00:00

>I have a mini-network with a P166 RedHat 6.0 system (brand new
>install), and a celeron 533 Win98 System. I had it setup so that I
>could telnet from my Win98 pc to my linux pc. It actually worked!

>Anyhow, I was just trying it again last night, but now when I try to
>telnet in to my redhat system, I get the redhat greeting, but no login
>prompt.

If it takes a minute or two for the login prompt to appear, that is
usually a DNS timeout problem. Are you running named (configured
incorrectly) or if not, do you have names for your IP's in /etc/hosts?

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