Re: odd telnet troubles.

Chris Rogers (crogers1@stevens-tech.edu)
Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:35:56 -0400 (EDT)

> I did read the entire text of your reported problem. As I usually do, I
> attempted to duplicate your problem so that I could confirm that it has
> been observed on other machines as well as yours. Since I was unable to
> duplicate your problem, I remembered that there had been some changes
> in ipv4 when Alexy started working upon it. One of the observed problems
> was that some of the network startup files became incompatible. Therefore
> I offered some advice.

sorry, it just seemed odd to blame the hosts file, or the network startup
script when everything else worked fine except telnet.

my system is in an odd state right now, because I have been upgrading
things piece by piece. The telnet problem was solved the same way every
other problem I have encountered has been solved, I grabbed the source and
recompiled.

> For this test, an empty /etc/hosts file was substituted and my nameserver
> was removed from /etc/resolv.conf. This makes certain that the machine
> does not know any IP addresses.

all I was trying to show was that the problem was not something as simple
as "you don't have a network card" or something equally as silly. I still
am not sure why JUST telnet would not work, but I made some pretty big
jumps in my libraries (including libc), someone has suggested that this
could be part of the problem.

thanks,
-chris

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