[95429] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Problems with telnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Sun Oct 18 14:24:40 1998
From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:10:32 +0200
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The Red Hat box is doing a DNS lookup on the remote machine. Just add the
remote machines hostname and IPp to the Linux box's hosts file and it will
resolve quickly without performing a DNS lookup.
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Anthony E. Greene <agreene@pobox.com>
Homepage & PGP Key <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/>
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Keith WIliams wrote:
>Wait about 90 seconds and it will work---there is always a delay and nobody knows
>why.
>
>Thomas Gaume wrote:
>
>> I completely re-installed redhat 5.1 on my box yesterday. Now when I try
>> to telnet to the box it says:
>>
>> Red Hat Linux release 5.1 (Manhattan)
>> Kernel 2.0.34 on an i586
>>
>> but never gives me the login prompt. Is there a config that I missed
>> somewhere?
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