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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!phase2.worldnet.att.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!strange.dfwmm.net!usenet From: ahzz@dfwmm.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: PPP telnet problem Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 22:17:16 GMT Organization: DFW Multimedia Lines: 18 Message-ID: <56l71p$nri@strange.dfwmm.net> References: <328C99BA.F5A@arlut.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 25-02-dal.dfwmm.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Ian Fink <fink@arlut.utexas.edu> wrote: >I have just set up ppp on my bsdi 2.0.1 box, but after I connect >to it, I cannot telnet to it. It gives me a connection to it, then it >closes it right after :( >I can telnet to other places just fine. >Does anyone have any suggestions? >Ian Fink >fink@arlut.utexas.edu The telnet daemon is doing a reverse lookup on the source of the telnet linkup. You need to have the ip in the hosts file and/or the named services and it will work ok.