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From: leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Can't connect to suns from a machine via tcp/ip
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Date: 4 Jun 91 20:40:57 GMT
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I got an interesting problem on a sun Sparcstation IPC (call it A) running
4.1.1.

I'm on a big ethernet (actually multiple ethernets connected by Cisco boxes).

Machine A has no problem running ftp to PCs and MACs running NCSA Telnet.

Other suns have no problem connecting to Machine A via ftp and telnet (I'm only
using  IP numbers on Machine A so I can't run the Berkeley r-tools and other
stuff).

Machine A can ping the other sun's, but ftp and telnet just hangs up (it starts
but doesn't ask for an account).

The machine comes from a 3rd party with special software, and a lot of
configuration files in /etc were changed (not sure why).  Anyone know what to
look at and why this happens (I'm going to look into the problem -- never saw
this before).

Strange...

marty
(Knowledge is useful in the Information Age)
(Software is mindstuff.  It is the hardest activity created by man)

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