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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!199.60.229.3!newsfeed.direct.ca!news-sea-19.sprintlink.net!news-in-west.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!205.162.172.4!mercury.initco.net!beyer From: beyer%/etc/HOSTNAME (Eric Beyer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Interesting Telnet Problem Date: 11 Jul 1997 11:10:25 GMT Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Lines: 28 Message-ID: <868619581.373625@wicca.hi-line.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: wicca.hi-line.net Keywords: telnet ppp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Cache-Post-Path: wicca.hi-line.net!unknown@mothra.hi-line.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44280 Greetings, I recently have just installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on my home system. I have everything working just fine except for one little glitch that I just cannot figure out. Ok here it goes, I use PPP to connect to the Linux Server I run at the University, anyway I can make the connection just fine but I cannot telnet to any machine on that network, I can FTP, use the WEB, sendmail, etc... to it but when I telnet I just get: #telnet isp.running-linux.edu Trying 234.242.24.242... Connected to isp.running-linux.edu Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. <--- I dont even get a login prompt. What really gets me is that I use rlogin to get into it and if I start up X11 and use xterm I can telnet to my ISP also. So if anyone could solve this little mystery for me I would really appreciate it. At first I thought it may have Linux but I tried other machines running Linux on a couple of different networks and it works fine. I still don't understand why it does actually let me connect in xterm. Is there something different I need to do to telnet from the virtual console? Thanks in advance :) Eric Beyer <beyer@cis.nmclites.edu>