cfjph@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Judy Halchin) (03/29/91)
>We're having trouble connecting to our 6000s from our dial-in gateway, >and it appears that it's due to the design of IBM's telnetd. Normally, >hosts receiving a telnet connection ask for a terminal type, but don't >demand one. Our gateways don't know terminal type (*lots* of things >connect through them, processes included), so don't provide it, which >hangs the AIX3.1 (3003+) telnetd (since IBM _really_ wants a terminal >type). We saw the same problem here after going to level 3003. We "fixed" it by going back to the telnetd from 3001. Judy Halchin cfjph@eiu.edu