[plug] telnet

[Rob Hall]

What it was is that he'd changed the sever name but not updates the hosts
and resolv.conf files.

Thanks for your help.


Regards,


Rob Hall


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Matt Kemner
> Sent: 18 February 1999 16:41
> To: Plug
> Subject: Re: [plug] telnet
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Rob Hall wrote:
>
> > An associate changed a gateway address and the domain and
> server name on a
> > server.  Shared folders, internet etc all works fine.  However I can no
> > longer telnet to the server - the telnet client just hangs.
> Even if I use
> > the IP address.
>
> Could it be the server is trying to look up _your_ IP address, and for
> some reason can't talk to it's DNS servers, which is making it take a
> while to accept you?
> when you say "just hangs" - how long have you left it sitting there before
> giving up?
>
> >  Is there anything
> > else that he might of inadvertantly changed that could cause
> this behaviour?
>
> Well the gateway address change could have caused this problem too, if
> it's trying to route back to your IP address through the wrong gateway.
> Any additional interfaces/routes he may have added could cause this
> problem too, as could a misconfigured firewall...
>
> Depends on how much this associate knows, and what commands he may have
> typed... sounds like he's the type of person that knows "just enough to be
> dangerous" :)
>
>  - Matt
>