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Re: Problems with Telnet RH5.1

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lg - Loyd Goodbar)
Thu Nov 12 20:58:19 1998

From: lgoodbar@watervalley.net (lg - Loyd Goodbar)
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 02:00:54 GMT
Reply-To: lgoodbar@watervalley.net
In-Reply-To: <003801be0dde$033a3640$0200a8c0@eugene.gart.dyn.ml.org>
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It turns out the last line in my /etc/hosts file didn't have a linefeed. =
Works
fine now, thanks!

Loyd



On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:44:39 -0500, "Gart B Nixon" <gart@coe.ml.org> =
wrote:

>I ran into this on a standalone system without DNS entries or a Host =
Table
>If you wait long enough, the login prompt will appear.  It's trying to
>reverse lookup your host.
>
>Two possible solutions:
>1.) Put your 95 machine into the Hosts File
>2.) Enable a DNS server someplace

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