I Apologize with everyone for such stupid questions.
thanks to bear with me.

I jsut did not know that the nsswitch convention was used also on NEtBSD I
thought it was only for Solaris, so the dns did not work.
now everything is OK up and running

thanks to all

Rick


On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Michael Kukat wrote:

> HI !
> 
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 nbsd@righi.dhs.org wrote:
> > whatever daaemon ssh ssh2 or telnet or ftp they are enabled I c annot
> > enter inside thw system from outside
> > 
> > the client h angs checking for an encrypted connection and it lasts
> > minutes before it gets the telnet or ftp prompt.
> > The ssh then does not reply at all it never prompts me for password.
> 
> Even with my clean DNS installation, it wants to go online here. I have to
> look for the thing it wants to request. Maybe you just should have a permanent
> internet connection currently :-) Try kicking out the resolv.conf and the
> default gateway, then any requests will fail much quicker, and it should work.
> 
> > I als oahve problem with ping and traceroute they does not show me
> > anything, is it for a security policy or something ??
> 
> There were strange ICMP problems a while ago, but i think it worked here
> yesterday. But maybe i didn't try a ping.
> 
> > How I disable or manage thte default security policy ??
> 
> Just enable telnet, shell and login in inetd.conf, then it should work.
> Installing OpenSSH or so might be a good idea to make the system happy. But i
> didn't check out the performance the VAX needs for the encryption/decryption.
> 
> ...Michael
> 
> -- 
>  Michael@unixiron.org, Rottweil/Germany, http://www.bsdfans.org
>  I'm using: [solaris] [hp-ux] [irix] [freebsd] [netbsd] [openbsd] [linux]
> 
>