Well it sure didn't take to long to reach the limit of my knowledge. I really don't know where to look to find what services are running. I found a /etc/services file but that looked more like porting information (telnet 23/tcp). I could not find anything that had the a telnet 127.0.0.1 110 line. Sorry, I am a new user.
I am trying this as work and we are on an ethernet network running TCP/IP on class b numbers. There are only two Debian machines on the network right now. Both are purely experimental at this point. I did check the hosts file at it does have the machine name and IP number. When I said I could ping I meant I can the IP address not the device name. I don't have anything set up for name resolution right now for these machines. We are basically an NT & VAX shop. The second experimental machine that has only one NIC card I can telnet into just fine without any problems. In setting up the second NIC card on the first machine I could not find much documentation so I just decided to edit the /etc/host file and added another line with the same device name and a second IP address on another segment. Then I went to the /etc/network/interfaces file and added a iface eth1 inet static section defining the IP address, netmask, network, broadcast and gateway numbers. That all I did. I could not find much more information in the How Tos, online documentation or SAMs Debian Unleashed book. I am sure I have missed something. In any case thanks for the help and I hope I have provided enough information to fuel an answer. Brian On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 03:31:38PM -0400, Kimsey-Hickman, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried to set up a telnet session using both the ip and host name. > When using the ip number I get just the "telnet> " prompt with no error > messages. Do you have any services running that you could telnet into? For example: telnet 127.0.0.1 110 or something like that to see if anything is running. >When I use the host name and get and "Unknown Host" error. I can > ping the ip address without any problem. > Sounds like a name configuration error. How is your network set up? Are you trying to access a home network from work? -- Chaotic42 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~chaotic42/ http://www.bigplasticfork.org/ We are what we repeatedly do - Aristotle
