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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.0 & 2.2.1 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:53:42 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3351B856.3411@OntheNet.com.au> References: <5is2ga$nq1@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Byung Yang <byung@wam.umd.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39033 Byung Yang wrote: > > I am using FreeBSD 2.2.0 and there is some server that uses FreeBSD 2.2.1. > The problem is that I cannot connect to the server. When I try to telnet > > to freebsd 2.2.1, i just can't connect directly from my box. > Does anyone have any idea? or is it one of the bugs in the new releases? There are two possible sources of error... (a) IP routing (b) DNS In the case of (a), it is possible to have a route that gets your packets to the remote end, but it lacks a route back to you. In the case of (b), I have often seen where a misconfigured machine (DNS wise) will take several minutes to timeout when attenpting to reverse lookup your IP address. Check that both your forward (name to IP) and reverse (IP to name) DNS is working on both machines! Of course, someone may have been playing with /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf and totally screwed thing up!!! Tony