> Doing telnet, I can login, send the password, and then: nothing
> appears on screen!
That doesn't make much sense. Telnet is a very simple protocol.
> The same with ftp: I can connect, send the password, etc. but after
> saying `get something', nothing happens; not a single byte is
> transmitted.
When the ftp fails, does it simply hang? Or does it give an error. You
need to be as complete as possible when reporting problems to a mostly-
disinterested Internet. :)
No error (maybe I haven't waited long enough -- after about 10 Minutes
I quit)! It appears to me that both ftp and telnet are divided into
two `channels' (I must admit that I've no idea about the internals).
The first channel sends text information line by line (e.g. the
command `dir' works in ftp, I can do a `ls -l' in telnet), but if I
say `hash' and then `get foo.bar', everything appears OK except that
not a single byte will be transmitted. I can cancel the not-working
transfer with Ctrl-c.
In the telnet session, if I say `pine', the session freezes completely
(neither Ctrl-C nor Ctrl-Z shows any result); only a Ctrl-] brings me
into the telnet menu. Saying `set' on the bash prompt causes the same
behaviour.
Maybe related:
Using ftp on the computer which is directly connected with the
Internet using a modem (orion), I get things like
150 ASCII data connection ... (129.217.23.34,1118)
while connecting to a remote host (and this works), and on the machine
which is connected via plip to orion, I get
150 ASCII data connection ... (129.217.23.34,61005)
(and this doesn't work). The last number is always that large.
But wait! I've just detected that it apparently only fails while
being connected to Solaris driven systems! For example, I can connect
to http://www.univie.ac.at (this is AIX AFAIK) but not to
http://www.dante.de (this is Solaris) nor to
http://www.uni-dortmund.de (which is my university account). Even
pine in a telnet session or ftp to an AIX system works as expected.
Any solution to this problem?
Werner
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