Hi, I have two computers, one is running a slack 8.0 distro, the other I am trying to migrate from slack to debian woody (Actually, Debian Woody unofficial, purchased from Edmunds Enterprises). They are connected by a single ethernet cable with a crossover network with static IP addresses in /etc/hostname.
When both are running slackware, I can telnet between them by name or ssh between them by name. When one of them (named ragwind) is running debian, I can ping my other computer (named bluemouth, which is always running the slack distro) by name. i.e. "ping -c 1 bluemouth". But if I try 'telnet bluemouth', telnet just hangs. On the other hand, 'telnet 192.168.0.1' works, where 192.168.0.1 is bluemouth's IP address. ssh does work by name, (i.e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, so far, it's something I can live with, though I'd really like to know why telnet bluemouth doesn't work (and better, be able to fix it so it does.) Going the other way is different. I can ping from bluemouth to my debian machine (by name, 'ping ragwind') and I can mount a filesystem from the debian machine on bluemouth ('mount -t nfs ragwind:...'), but if I try to telnet, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet ragwind Trying 192.168.0.2... Connected to ragwind.loc.net. Escape character is '^]'. and that's it, it hangs until I quit out. ssh also hangs. (However, ftp seems to work. At least I was able to do an 'ls' of a directory from ftp.) On the other hand, when I connect to my ISP with pppd, I can telnet in to it with just plain 'telnet rahul.net' with no problem. So mostly, I'd like to know why I cannot telnet in to the debian machine, though I'd also like to know why I can only telnet to the slackware using its naked IP address. Except for putting the IP addresses in to /etc/hosts, I haven't done any special configuration. In order to get the ethernet up and running I do the following (so far I do this by hand, after the system is fully booted up) insmod dmfe <to bring in the driver for the ethernet card> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 route add default eth0 That seems to be enough for slackware. Thanks for any help -Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]