On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Andy Finnell wrote:

> > > Well, I still get the same result;  It just takes longer for it to
> > > happen.  MacOS still says that that the host isn't responding.
> > 
> > Do you have a nameserver running on the NetBSD box? If not, use the ip
> > addr's that your ISP supplies.
> 
> No, I don't have nameserver on the NetBSD box.  And niether the Mac or
> NetBSD are connected to the internet.  I have a hosts file for the MacOS
> and one for the NetBSD box.  Do I *have* to be connected to the
> internet? I can set that up, but that's not what I'm aiming for here.  I
> just want the Mac and NetBSD box to communicate through telnet and ftp.

Sorry, I must not have been paying attention. With no nameserver at
all, reverse dns lookups will fail, but most telnet and ftp clients
will connect anyway. The best way to troubleshoot this is to listen on
the incoming interface with "tcpdump". Use "tcpdump -s 155 xx0" to 
decode dns and reverse-dns requests, to see if that's even the problems.