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- From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
- Subject: Re: Rlogin vs telnet puzzler
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 20:53:08 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.193912.18402@coe.montana.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.193912.18402@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
- >A professor here is trying to get to inel for some work.
- >
- >schizo:~ % rlogin inel.gov
- >inel.gov: Host is unreachable
- >
- >I can't think of anything on my end that would do such a thing, so maybe
- >it's on their end. Perhaps a gateway that only allows connections on certain
- >ports? ie, it blocks connections to 513, but allows connections to 23?
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- The last gateway before inel.gov is returning host unreachable for rlogins,
- so it's a pretty safe bet they are blocking rlogin to that system. tcpdump
- and traceroute are useful utilities for figuring out problems like this.
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