At some point, [EMAIL PROTECTED] had written: > > Well, > > I finally got my ethernet card working. In the grand tradition > of people in a big hurry I... punted. I grabbed a 3c509 card > that was laying around, shoved it into my computer, rebuilt the > kernel, and voila! > > So now I can ping the computer from the net, and I've changed > the default state to 3 (inittab), but... sigh... > > The ftpd and telnetd seem to sort of just hang. I telnet in > from another machine, it connects, but no login prompt. > > Any ideas?
Sounds like DNS isn't setup/working... it hangs for 60-240 secs while it tries to do the reverse lookup for the name Tim
