From: Quinn, Bryan (Bryan.Quinn@CooperTools.com)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 15:02:50 EST
Hello Admins,
Thanks to everybody who replied and a special thanks to Bill Hassell and
Mike Keighley for their answers which solved my problem. The problem was
reverse DNS lookup, I added the IP address of my Windows box to my
/etc/hosts file and that took care of the problem. Below are their responses
and below that is my original post.
BILL HASSELL:
Before you blame the PC/Reflection combination, make sure you can perform
a
plain old telnet. HP-UX will have big problems with IP spoofinf if your PC
isn't showing up in DNS. You'll always get a login prompt if you are using
a telnet connection. HOWEVER, if you are using Reflection/X, there are a
very large number of issues and settings to resolve, most of which are a
big pain to setup. I am a fan of Reflection for HP (aka, Reflection/1 or
the executable r1win.exe which is a local terminal emulator.
Now there are a number of settings I strongly recommend for Refelection/1
to make it more usable and I've included my quick ref doc on the subject.
You'll always get a system prompt with plain old Reflection regardless of
the default settings so the problem is very likely DNS.
telnetd on HP-UX will try to reject bogus connections by performing a
reverse
DNS lookup on your PC's IP address. You may find that you have broken DNS
servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf (use nslookup to verify) and if you
wait
for 30xNumberOfDNSserversInRESOLV.CONF (or 90 seconds max), and then get a
prompt, that is the issue. Change nsswitch.conf to use files dns rather
than
dns files and put your PC's IP address in your local /etc/hosts file.
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Best regards,
Bill Hassell
blhconsulting@mindspring.com
MIKE KEIGHLEY:
/etc/inetd.conf
/var/adm/inetd.sec
no. of ptys and strptys configured in the kernel
reverse DNS lookup failure
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Mike
ORIGINAL POST:
Hello Admins,
I feel like this is going to win the doofus award for the day, but here it
goes anyway. I am having a problem connecting to one of my app servers from
Reflections on my Windows box. Actually I connect but I do not get a login
prompt. My thinking is that it is a terminal setting issue. So my doofus
question is what config files controls your telnet connections on the UNIX
box.
Thanks,
Bryan Douglas Quinn
UNIX Support Specialist
Cooper Tools - Lexington, SC
803.808.6770
bryan.quinn@coopertools.com
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