On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Morten Liebach wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I have just done my first NetBSD ftp-install (1.4.2), and it went great.
> 
> But I can't use telnet!
> 
> This is fatal, since my ISP, stofanet.dk, requires me to telnet to a
> log-on server to get on-line (no, I can't use ssh :-().
> 
> What happens is; I `telnet 192.168.30.2 259', and nothing happens.
> This is the command that works from Linux, OpenBSD and Win98, so I feel
> it should in NetBSD too (a slight assumption, but according to the
> manpage it _is_ the right thing, the IP and port is right). :-)
> I then tried putting 192.168.30.2 in /etc/hosts, but still no joy.
> 
> If I log on from Linux and reboot to NetBSD there's no problems, and I
> can ftp-install packages etc., so it seems the network setup is OK.
> 
> The only thing I can think of now is that telnet might not use
> /etc/hosts (that it has something to do with DNS)?
> If that is so, how can that behavior be changed?

	Telnet should use both hosts and dns - you can change that
	with nsswitch.conf (man nsswitch.conf). 

	Your command looks fine - what output do you get - can you
	ping the log-on server OK?

                David/absolute
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