Subject: Re: Telnet in NetBSD 1.4.2
To: Shane A. Dawalt <sdawalt@millennium.wright.edu>
From: Nigel Reed <nigel@nelgin.nu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/02/2000 09:00:49
Just for fun I tried logging onto my 1.5_ALPHA2 system with 
Hummingbird Telnet 6.0 something. (HostExplorer version is 
6.0.1.1008). Was successful except I had to use ^J instead of
enter to go from login to password.

If you like, contact me off list and I'll enable a guest login for
you to try. Then you can see if that version of Hummingbird works
on ALPHA2.

Regards
Nigel

On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:05:53AM -0500, Shane A. Dawalt wrote:
> 
>   I have found an odd problem with telnetd on NetBSD 1.4.2.  It gets
> irritated when connected to by Hummingbird 6.2.0 Telnet.  When I connect
> I get the normal user and password prompts, but then things hang.  I do
> not get a shell prompt nor even the motd text.  From the lastlog I see
> my login, but it also shows that I logged out immediately (which is not
> true).  On the hummingbird side, I get no text beyond the "password:"
> prompt.  The socket remains open because I do not receive a disconnect
> message from Hummingbird.  I have not looked at netstat yet though.  
> I've tried to whiddle down the options that Hummingbird uses (set screen
> size, initiate negotiation first, etc), but it hasn't helped.  I can
> successfully get logged in if I use the Win95 supplied telnet.  This
> seems to exclude the possibility of a remove login configuration error
> on the unix side of things.  Anybody have any ideas??  (I haven't done
> much futzing with the defaults as provided by the binary installation
> packs.)
> 
>   Shane
> 
> --
> Shane D.
> "Silence is the oft-forgotten seasoning in the stew of wisdom."
>                                --Mark Anthony, The Keep of Fire

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