[H-GEN] [Debian hamm] Help!

[Martin Pool]

On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 12:39:18PM +1000, Byron Ellacott wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 07:09:34AM +1000, Daehenoc wrote:
> > Plesantries aside, i'll confess my ignorance and state my problem: 
> > Something screwey is going on with telnetd (and pppd) debian was set up @
> > humbug to connect to the humbug network, all o.k. BUT i've now got the
> > computer home, on my 192.168.1.x network. What happens is this: when I try
> > and telnet into this debian machine from other machines, a connection is
> > made, but you don't get the login: prompt. (telneting to the machine from
> > itself works, 'tho) When I try and run in.telnetd manually, I get this:
> dns.  it's trying to resolve 192.168.105.foo and is failing.  add
> entries to /etc/hosts - I haven't found any other way around it

Or, set up a nameserver somewhere on the network that's authoritative
for your domain and the reverse.  And make sure the telnet server's
resolv.conf points to that server. [0]

-- 
Martin Pool

[0]: I seem to have missed the original message, so excuse me if this
is obvious.

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