[918] in linux-net channel archive
Re: telnet/ftp/rlogin/rsh not working between Linux machines.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Thu Aug 17 09:29:59 1995
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 17:00:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
To: Bin Li <bli@umgis.merrick.miami.edu>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9508160556.AA00762@umgis.merrick.miami.edu>
You rpobably have DNS set up incorrectly for the machines.
Make sure you that forwards and backwards lookup set up correctly and they
respond with the same domain name. This look like tcp wrappers to me.
Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net
http://underground.org/
On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Bin Li wrote:
> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 01:56:09 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Bin Li <bli@umgis.merrick.miami.edu>
> To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: telnet/ftp/rlogin/rsh not working between Linux machines.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have Linux 1.2.8 installed on a number of 486DX/66. I am using them
> to form a parallel virtual machine. When testing the systems, I found
> two of the machines behaved strangely with such commands as telnet/ftp
> /rsh/rlogin. They don't connect if the remote host is a Linux box in
> the subnet. For example, when I issued the command
>
> telnet linux3
>
> I got the following response:
>
> Connected to linux3.....
> Escape characters is '^]'
> Connection closed by foreign host
>
> But when I telnet to other non-Linux machines anywhere, it works fine.
>
> I have also tried "rsh" and simply got
>
> linux3.merrick.miami.edu UNKNOW SERVER ERROR
>
> What should I do to fix this problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bin Li
> U. of Miami
>
