[3887] in linux-net channel archive
Re: telnet, nntp broken(?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olaf Titz)
Sun Jul 28 16:24:38 1996
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From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
Date: 28 Jul 1996 12:33:03 +0200
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Joe Alonso <joe@spectr.com> wrote:
> telnet says "Trying 1.2.3.4 Connected to site.net"
> and never comes back. It just sits there.
> Ftp and email to the outside world work fine.
> News reading exhibits the same problem as telnet.
I've had somewhat similar problems with a setup featuring an
(intentionally) broken router that swallowed fragmented packets.
Try to set the MTU to 296 and/or disable Path MTU Discovery.
olaf
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