I recently installed (well, 4 months ago anyway) a debian machine (intel) at work, and had problems connecting to it from outside the building, but only sometimes (telnet, ftp, ssh, whatever). I attributed that to firewall weirdness as there are definately weird things going on on that firewall.
A couple of weeks ago, I installed slink on a sparc (on a seperate, unfirewalled segment) and I'm getting the same problems. It's this sort of thing: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]$ telnet penguin1 Trying 198.103.92.132... Connected to penguin1.glfc.forestry.ca. Escape character is '^]'. and not even after an hour or two does it come back... but it connects, weird! However, I can telnet to the solaris machines on the same subnet no problems, ftp, whatever I please. Does anyone have any ideas? This is an intermittent problem (Sometimes network connections work without a hitch). TIA -Dano