[svlug] ping and telnet issue

[Bevan Schroeder]

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Moe wrote:

> on my limited installation machine, when i do "route" it displays my
> loopback and eth0 and then waits.

This sounds like a DNS problem - try 'route -n'.
If it displays a line for eth0, the next is probably default gateway,
which it will try to reverse-lookup for a name.  Read up on
/etc/resolv.conf, or find someone who knows a redhat utility for it.
Or copy it from one of the other machines.

> when i try to telnet to my "limited installation machine" i get
> "trying 101.101.x.x." then "connected to machine name", then the
> "issue" and no login prompt.

Is inetd running?  ('pidof inetd')
Is telnetd listed in /etc/inetd.conf (without a # at the beginning)?
Can telnetd run?  ('ls -l /usr/sbin/in.telnetd', check perms)
Those are the most likely suspects I can think of.

-bevan


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