[7108] in testers
Re: unable to telnet to 9.4 Linux machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jun 13 12:58:39 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200506131651.j5DGp3g7010790@dit.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:57:56 -0400
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On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 12:51 -0400, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> Since sometime in the last few days, I'm unable to telnet to Linux machines
> running 9.4.8:
>
> dit.mit.edu:~ athena% telnet astrophel
> ...trying Athena's default telnet options: "-axF"
> Trying 18.152.2.9...
> Connected to astrophel.MIT.EDU (18.152.2.9).
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> Encryption could not be enabled.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
This is new. I can reproduce the problem from egyptian-gods to
equal-rites, although I'll note there is a 15-30 second pause between
"Escape character is '^]'.' and "Encryption could not be enabled.".
rlogin -x still appears to work for me.
> ssh still works most of the time, but sometimes I see:
>
> dit.mit.edu:~ athena% ssh astrophel
> Connection to astrophel closed by remote host.
> Connection to astrophel closed.
>
> (a retry right after this worked).
This is known, and will be fixed in 9.4.10.
