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- From: nhc@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (n.h.chandler)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: More problems with telnetd/ftpd
- Keywords: tcpip, telnet, ftp
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.225558.6147@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:55:58 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.040050.14120@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Organization: AT&T
- Lines: 58
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- In article <1992Dec30.040050.14120@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern) writes:
- > Well, I was optimistic after I downloaded the new net-src package
- > from sunsite, since telnetd would allow me to log into my own
- > machine via loopback again. But I've recently been having some
- > serious problems with it, along with ftpd.
- >
- > When I'm using term (v0.9.9) with the tredir utility to redirect
- > ports to my own system (i.e. tredir 6111 23 so people can log
- > in via telnet) it'll work once, and then all subsequent attempts to
- > telnet to that port will result in a connection that just hangs, with
- > no login prompt, or anything. Interestingly enough, I can still
-
- I experience the same behaviour with telnet. After one connection
- all subsequent attempts to connection just hang.
-
- > telnet from my own machine to my own machine, but not for long -
- > after a few more times, it fails even to do that, just locking up.
- > I suspect this may have something to do with /bin/login, as I'm
- > using the login from the shadow-password package, and it never did
- > work well with telnetd (why?). Needless to say this problem
- > pretty much trashes any hopes of using telnet(d) with term over
- > the internet.
-
- I'm not using the shadow-password package and my system fails the
- same way.
-
- > Ftpd has a similar problem with working once (sometimes not at all)
- > and then locking up on all subsequent attempts to connect.
- > Part of this is probably due to my using shadow passwords which ftpd
- > doesn't seem to support.
- >
-
- Same here, and I'm not using shadow passwords.
-
- >
- > My system configuration:
- > 486, Phoenix BIOS
- > 200mb IDE drive
- > No ethernet board
- > X8514 with TCP/IP
- > Linux Kernel version 0.99.1
- >
- >
-
- My system configuration:
- 486/33, AMI BIOS
- 8 mb ram
- 2 - 200mb IDE drives
- 16 mb swap
- WD8013EBT (16k ram)
- Xfree86 with Local Bus ET 4000
- TCP/IP, Linux 0.99.1
-
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- nhc@mtdcr.att.com || Middletown, NJ 07748
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