RE: problem connecting to other hosts

[Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc <achapkis mail dls net>]

  That's right! I just remembered what it was in my setup. I think the host
doesn't know how to resolve the name of machine you telenting from. What's
happening, I think is that when you telnet or rlogin it tries to do a reverse
lookup and not knowing the address just isn't giving you a responce. Try to put
an entry for your machine in /etc/hosts and see what will happen.

>>   I think this is due to resolving names - somehow your machine can't
>> resolve the name to IP to the other host. Did you try to telnet by IP
>> address? 
>
>no I dont think this is the problem.  Using the IP address results in the
>same behavior. I can also ping the host using the hostname for example and
>this works fine.  As I mentioned, it makes the connection to other hosts
>but it just doesnt 'go all the way' and offer a login prompt for some
>reason.. 
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                                      Arc C.
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