Re: Intermittent Login Prompt via Telnet

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 01/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:36:23 -0500

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:10:04 -0000, Carl Marshall
  <csmarshall@stem.net> wrote:
> I've just installed SuSE Linux 9 for AMD64 and have come across a problem I
> cannot solve. When using the telnet client, I can log onto localhost when
> it's running telnetd, either via 127.0.0.1 or its allocated IP. I cannot,
> however, log onto a remote system (also running telnetd under SuSE Linux
> 8.1) all of the time. Very occassionally, it works OK, but most of the time
> I just get a connection with no login prompt. Using another machine (SuSE
> Linux 9 for i386) as the client, I can connect 100% of the time to the
> remote. Does anyone have any experience with the AMD64 version and this
> problem?
>
It could be a reverse DNS problem if your client machine isn't
registered with a DNS server or in the remote machine's /etc/hosts file.
If DNS is the problem it may take a minute or two to get a login
prompt. 

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