On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 08:16:58AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 09:35:41PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > I am trying to connect to a SunOS 5.5.1 system that doesn't have a monitor
> > > or keyboard and the serial console shows the boot messages, but no login
> > > prompt.
> 
> > >  route add -net -interface 137.134.52 137.134.52.26
> > 
> > What I would do here is something like:
> > ifconfig ne0 137.134.1.1 netmask 0xffff0000 alias
> 
> Okay. Thanks (I used 137.134.52.1 netmask 0xffffff00). After doing this,
> nmap was able to see over 20 listening ports, including login, telnet, ftp
> and finger.
> 
> I am able to ping the box and traceroute to it. I am able to get the date
> with "telnet 137.134.52.26 daytime". And I am successfully able to use
> "telnet 137.134.52.26 echo" and communicate with it.
> 
> But, I am unable to receive any login prompt via telnet or rlogin. Plus
> ftp closes the connection after about 60 seconds: "421 Service not 
> available, remote server timed out. Connection closed".
> 
> I assumed this was a DNS problem, but the rlogin and telnet connections
> have not timed out and it has been over fifteen minutes.

I suspect it's a DNS problem; yes. Maybe something like tcpwrappers is
installed and don't want to give access to a machine with no DNS entry.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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