Re: WinXX and Linux on a network

David Woodhouse (D.W.Woodhouse@nortel.co.uk)
Thu, 02 Oct 1997 09:41:34 +0100

teunis@usa.net said:
> They can ping me fine. UDP connections (talk, ytalk) seem to work.
> TCP connections (telnet (?), ftp, http, postgres, etc) don't work.
> Note that tcp connections FROM this machine to the WinXX machines
> work fine.

Are you using DNS? Try adding entries for the machines which need TCP access
into your Linux box in /etc/hosts. I had a problem with telnet access into a
Linux machine recently, with telnet sessions just hanging after connection. It
seems that tcpd or telnetd was trying to look up the originator by its IP
address, failing, and just sitting there doing nothing.

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