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Re: telnet/ftp/rlogin/rsh not working between Linux machines. (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley McLean)
Fri Aug 18 04:19:37 1995
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 14:53:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bradley McLean <bradm@phoenix.silverplatter.com>
To: Bin Li <bli@umgis.merrick.miami.edu>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9508162019.AA01490@umgis.merrick.miami.edu>
On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Bin Li wrote:
> > > > telnet linux3
> > > >
> > > > I got the following response:
> > > >
> > > > Connected to linux3.....
> > > > Escape characters is '^]'
> > > > Connection closed by foreign host
> "linux3" is running "in.telnetd" because it accepts connections from all
>...
> problem might have something to do with PC/TCP, so I recompiled the
> kernel but am still having the same problem. Any other thoughts?
No solutions, but the general comment that I've experienced this problem
regularly over the last 2 1/2 years of using linux. Sometimes it doesn't
like a particular machine, sometimes a particular OS, sometimes the
status changes over the course of time. Telnets to or from Telebit
routers were always dicey. Sometimes 5 or 6 successive attempts would
result in it working. Sometimes opening a FTP connection to the same
host appeared to change something so that the telnet would work. Last
week, I was telnetting from london to boston from a Win95 client
(Ughh!). It worked fine for two days, then suddenly stopped, and I then
would telnet to a sun in boston, and then to the linux box (1.1.59). It
worked fine. I've seen the same problem in .99 kernels, 1.[0-3][0-9]
kernels. I suspect it's some kind of timing subtlety in TCP, but I've
never had the time to set up a comprehensive test bed.
-Brad
