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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with rsh / 2.0.5R
Date: 8 Jul 1995 23:39:18 +0200
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Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@msgi.com> wrote:

>Here's a better one: I can rlogin from FB 2.0.5R => 2.0R and
>it works fine. I can go from anything else to 2.0R.
>
>But anything to 2.0.5R telnet workes but rlogin fails.
>
>I can't find anything in the /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf
>different that would cause this. Any ideas?

Same hostname, same IP address?  Try another rlogin (w/ passwd) and
see what gethostbyname() would return (ususally shown by `w').
Unqualified hostnames and FQDN's are different in .rhost files.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)