Once again, I got more than a dozen replies to my question. Thank you all.
The general consensus is that telnetd was trying to perform a reverse lookup
of the incoming IP, but the DNS config on cdrom doesnt match our network.
It will eventually time out and give me login prompt.
Thanks.
Ying
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xu, Ying
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 4:04 PM
> To: 'sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu'
> Subject: can ping but cannot telnet into the box
>
> HI, Managers,
>
> I have a ss20 running Solaris 7. My /var got corrupted and cannot be fsck
> manully. So I decided to restore it from the backup tape. I booted it
> from CDROM to run level 3. From my ss20, I can ping or telnet to other
> hosts, but other hosts can ping but cannot telnet to my box. It hangs at
> "Escape Character is '^]'". What might be the problem?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Ying
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