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- From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: where is the NEW telnetd ?
- Keywords: telnetd location
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.192413.15654@sfu.ca>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:24:13 GMT
- References: <simmon.724957537@maxwell> <1992Dec21.181823.26851@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- In article <1992Dec21.181823.26851@samba.oit.unc.edu> jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
- >In article <simmon.724957537@maxwell> simmon@eeel.nist.gov (Eric Simmon) writes:
- >>I am trying to get telnet (tcpip) running with the new kernel (0.99),
- >>I can telnet out of my machine, but I can not telnet in from the outside.
- >>Someone mentioned that there is a new telnetd which solves these probs.
- >>Is this true, and if so where is telnetd?
- >
- >there is a fairly new telnetd on sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/system/Network
- >
- >I am still having some problems with it though, on my machine; it takes
- >about a minute to allow a login. I 've heard that this is
- >becuase I am not running named and it is waiting for named timing out;
- >
- >I'm going to look into this though...
- >
- >jem.
-
- This is true. It is not telnet's fault, rather the way linux does
- name resolving. You shouldn't see thins if you:
- 1) have access to a nameserver
- 2) are running named
- So if you are doing loopback just for fun, you will have to:
- 1) wrestle with configuring named
- 2) wait the minute
-
- - Ken
-