Can you explain the situation in a bit more detail?
1. The 3-minute delay in itself sounds like a typical DNS problem - for
example, tcpd is having trouble with reverse lookup. But if the needed info
is in /etc/hosts (*not* HOSTS; case counts in Linux/Unix), and if
/etc/host.conf is set up correctly (should read "order hosts, bind" followed
by "multi on"), then that is an unlikely intepretation of what you are seeing.
2. Do you really mean that you wait 3 minutes, you see a login: prompt, and
the connection immediately terminates (before you get a chance to enter a
userid)? What do inetd, tcpd, &/or in.telnetd (or whatever your telnet
daemon is called) log about any of this?
3. Does this problem occur only with one Win98 machine or is it a general
problem on your LAN? Does it occur if the telnet client is a Linux host? (If
you don't have a second Linux host to try, can you telnet from the Linux
host to itself - as localhost, by its hostname, &/or by its IP address?)
At 09:35 PM 6/15/99 -0700, Jason Oliver wrote:
>I can Telnet into my Linux box remotely from a Win98 session, it says it has
>connected. However, Telnet does not respond imediately and when it does give
>the login prompt (after 3 minutes) it immediately looses the connection. I
>have checked my HOSTS file and I have associated names with IP's.
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