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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ping works, telnet won't Date: 29 Jun 1996 15:03:50 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4r3gkm$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4r2kho$f5p@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E bob@nemesis.its.berkeley.edu (bob prohaska) wrote: > I've set up an elderly 386 as a dedicated slip terminal server, > and it seems to work admirably save for one small problem: I can > ping anywhere, but telnet and ftp (seemingly all things wanting > interactive logins) stop cold after establishing a connection. Do UDP-based services work (DNS lookup, NFS mounts, talk requests)? If so, it might be related to the TCP extensions. You can disable them in /etc/sysconfig. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)