[ILUG] Telnet Question?

[Jerry Walsh]

Also a possibility it's trying connect to you via ident (port 113 tcp)

Jerry.

At 11:54 14/05/01 +0100, Kevin Gannon wrote:
>The most likely reason is that the Sun box is doing a reverse DNS
>lookup against the IP address that you are telnetting from. Try doing
>a ping from the Sun box to the Linux box using its name. If it doesnt
>work put an entry on the Sun boxes /etc/hosts file and make sure you
>can ping it by name then.
>
>If you can ping it by name you should then get telnetted in straight away.
>
>Regards,
>Kevin
>
>>Has anybody had any problems telnet to a Sun box from
>>a Redhat 6.1 box. Anytime I try to telnet to a Sun box
>>be it Sparc or Intel, I get to the point where it says
>>connect and the ^] message comes back, then it seems
>>to hang. eg:
>>
>>Trying XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX...
>>Connected to sunbox.somedomain.com.
>>Escape character is '^]'.
>>
>>
>>I can get to the boxes through other routes, I can get
>>to machines on the same subnet as these boxes, so is there
>>anything I am missing in my setup that might cause this?
>>
>>The Linux box is confiured for dhcp.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Mark
>>
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