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- From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
- Subject: Re: Loopback Network question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.000339.540@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: The Linux Inquisition, Propaganda Division
- References: <1992Dec12.230105.3948@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:03:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.230105.3948@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60c-2gf@web-2d.berkeley.edu () writes:
- >Problem 1:
- >I can telnet, ftp, and ping myself using either my hostname or full
- >address. However, if I try to ftp or telnet to 0, the system crashes
- >and reboots.
-
- "Don't do that, then!" :)
-
- >Problem 2:
- >If I just finger, or finger <username>, it works fine. But if I
- >finger <user>@<my-hostname> or just @<my-hostname> it just prints out
- >my hostname in brackets and displays no information.
-
- Make sure your finger is in the right place. When you run finger @hostname,
- it has to start up fingerd to do the net_finger() stuff. Fingerd has to
- run finger to get the information, and fingerd expects finger to be in
- a certain place (/usr/local/bin/finger on my setup). Just do a
- 'strings fingerd | grep finger' to see where fingerd expects it to be.
-
- Good luck!
-
- mdw
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- Matt Welsh mdw@tc.cornell.edu Cornell Theory Center
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