[LUAU] telnet access

[Eric Hagen]

That long wait without a timeout sounds like a reverse DNS problem.  More
than likely you friends where coming in from a machine that did not
properly or quickly enough respond to the reverse DNS query off of the IP
address.  If the telnet client has a high timeout value, after a couple of
minutes, they will connnect if this is it, otherwise the client times out.


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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Myles Uyema wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, maleko wrote:
> 
> > hi, im running a pentium 166 with red hat 5.1  Awhile ago, i had trouble
> > installing the rr login client, but now its working fine. I have made user
> > accounts to see if i could telnet inside my computer. I have a small 2
> > computer LAN setup. I'm able to telnet into my linux box with my other
> > computer, but when my friends try to telnet inside, they say that they get
> > the hourglass. Could someone tell me whats wrong? Or if there's a firewall
> > that rr uses that i have to get past. thanks
> 
> You don't tell us what hostname your friends are using when they try to
> telnet to your linux system.  Your internal LAN can use any name it
> feels like, however your friends--I assume they're coming in through
> some Internet Service Provider--probably cannot.
> 
> Myles
> 
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