scfisher@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Fisher) (05/08/90)
I just got A/UX 1.1.1 for my Mac IIci, and I configured the kernal for NFS. I am able to telnet to other machines, but I cannot telnet to the Mac (or FTP or rlogin in). Iv'e even tried telnet loop, and I still get the same error message - "Connection closed by foreign host.". NFS works fine, and Iv'e tried it with and without YP. I had someone else who has a Mac with A/UX look at what I did, and he can't figure it out. Any ideas? Thanks!!! steve
davism@creatures.cs.vt.edu (Mat Davis) (05/09/90)
In article <1834@nems.dt.navy.mil> scfisher@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Steven Fisher) writes: >I just got A/UX 1.1.1 for my Mac IIci, and I configured the kernal for >NFS. I am able to telnet to other machines, but I cannot telnet to the >Mac (or FTP or rlogin in). Iv'e even tried telnet loop, and I still get >the same error message - "Connection closed by foreign host.". Are you running X by any chance? We've had that problem occur occasionally around here and we believe that 'xterm' corrupts the /etc/utmp file slightly at times. It appears that you do the 'telnet' or 'rlogin', and they find an "unused" pseudo-tty but then when they actually try to *use* that pty, they think that someone who has closed an 'xterm' window still owns it and the login aborts. (At least, I *think* that's what we decided was happening.) In that case, you can frequently telnet to the machine and then suspend the telnet at the 'login:' prompt and telnet a *second* time to actually get in. The (suspended) telnet will "occupy" the pty that's causing the problem so that the second telnet will work. On the other hand, I've also seen this happen on a couple of machines due to a shortage of MBUFs (check that with 'netstat -m'), and I've still got one machine that does it occasionally and I haven't figured out why yet... Mat