An urgent help needed.

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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Mohammad K. Ghanbari wrote:
> > To make it clear for U, I should say that login using pap is successful, I
> > can ping my server by its IP but not by its name. 
> 
> This means that the name server on the client side is setup wrongly, but
> that the mgetty and PPP parts work fine.
> 
> > Also I can't telnet to it
> > even by IP. Telnet client in windows95 shows that connect (server IP address
> > appears at top of telnet windows) but after doezen minutes! waitting, I
> > can't connect.
> 
> Hmmm.  Hard to say.  Windows' telnet client is incredibly broken, so that
> might not really say anything.  What kind of error message does it print?
> Are you sure that there *IS* a telnet server running on the server side?

If the windows-machine doesnt have a working DNS, windows' telnet needs
minutes to connect to a given machine. (thats also my observation)
Apparently windows trys to do a reverse lookup of the IP, and continues
after a DNS-timeout. (thats my guess based on my observations)

> gert


Thomas
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