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- From: christian.perrier@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Christian Perrier)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: [NET]: PROBLEMS WITH
- Message-ID: <7688.44.uupcb@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:45:00 GMT
- Reply-To: christian.perrier@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Christian Perrier)
- Organization: Li'LL BBS - Paris, France
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- MB> Some telnet/ftp daemons perform an RFC 931 reverse lookup to
- MB> find out who is connecting to them. If the remote machine
- MB> (the Linux box, here) doesn't run an RFC 931 server, the daemon
- MB> will time out before giving up. This can give the appearance of
- MB> a hang up. Worse, certain other problems are also seen with RFC 931
- MB> sometimes (although usually associated with packet filtering) and
- MB> these can cause real hang ups.
- MB> This may not be the problem here, but it might be worth
- considering.
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- That was *exactly* the problem...I solved it by running my own name
- server (quite hard to achieve!).....
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- --- GEcho 1.00/beta+
- * Origin: <<BuBulle, Point de BuBulle>> Chatillon FR (2:320/200.1)
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