I'm trying to TELNET into this new box from a dial-up port into the corporate LAN. However, when I try to connect, I see "telnetd: getnameinfo." and then the attempt dies. Any ideas what might be causing this? Thanks Geordon PS: This used to work, before I went from 7.0 to 7.1 with a fresh install.
I'm trying to TELNET into this new box from a dial-up port into the corporate LAN. However, when I try to connect, I see "telnetd: getnameinfo." and then the attempt dies. Any ideas what might be causing this?
Sure, I had the same problem. It is a standard security policy in linux SuSE, take a look at the handbook and find out more about it. However if you want to be able to telnet (for ssh there is no need, cause it is secure) you need to add the ip address of the machine or machines from where you are planning to access your SuSE box. The ip address should be added in /etc/hosts. Actually this is all managed with /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny but I do it the other way as I mentioned before and it works just fine. Ra�l
On Fri, May 18, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote:
I'm trying to TELNET into this new box from a dial-up port into the corporate LAN. However, when I try to connect, I see "telnetd: getnameinfo." and then the attempt dies. Any ideas what might be causing this?
Sure, I had the same problem. It is a standard security policy in linux SuSE, take a look at the handbook and find out more about it. However if you want to be able to telnet (for ssh there is no need, cause it is secure) you need to add the ip address of the machine or machines from where you are planning to access your SuSE box. The ip address should be added in /etc/hosts.
Actually this is all managed with /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny but I do it the other way as I mentioned before and it works just fine.
Nope, this is a bug in the telnetd daemon through a changed function interface in glibc 2.2. All you need is the update from ftp.suse.com or an mirror. You will only see the error if the IP address is not resolveable to a hostname. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
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Geordon VanTassle
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Raul Gutierrez Segales
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Thorsten Kukuk