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- From: garnett@refuge.Colorado.EDU (Santiago de la Paz)
- Subject: Re: PC-NFS SLIP and telnet problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.043717.1680@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: Cogwheel Inc., Boulder, Colorado
- References: <105528@bu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:37:17 GMT
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- In article <105528@bu.edu> apollo@buengc.bu.edu (Doug A. Chan) writes:
- >
- >Whenever I try to telnet to a host, it just hangs there...
- >What is wrong with telnet?
-
- One of the primary reasons why a telnet attempt like this will hang is if
- the remote host cannot reverse-lookup the IP address of the host you're
- coming from. Make sure that both hosts are forward and reverse-mapped
- (just for thoroughness, doncha know) if you're using DNS, or that they're
- both in your machine's hosts files.
-
- ~james
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