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Re: telnet/ftp/rlogin/rsh not working between Linux machines.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bin Li)
Thu Aug 17 11:29:53 1995
From: Bin Li <bli@umgis.merrick.miami.edu>
To: aleph1@dfw.net (Aleph One)
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 22:08:46 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950816165846.8713A-100000@dfw.net> from "Aleph One" at Aug 16, 95 05:00:10 pm
Thank you for all the helps. The problem was caused by a mis-match in
the DNS, as suggested by Aleph.
Now everything works great!
Bin
>
> 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:
>
> >
Original posting:
> > 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
> >
