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Re: telnet/ftp/rlogin/rsh not working between Linux machines.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Fri Aug 18 11:34:33 1995

To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: miquels@drinkel.ow.org (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 09:14:27 +0200 (MET DST)

In article <9508160556.AA00762@umgis.merrick.miami.edu>,
Bin Li  <bli@umgis.merrick.miami.edu> wrote:
>
>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 

Most Linux machines have the tcp wrapper configured in /etc/inetd.conf.
Look in /var/adm/messages; it will probably complain about name/IP number
mismatch. Fix your name server.

Mike.
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