On Mon, Apr 23, 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:24:09PM -0500, john connolly wrote: > > I have two pcs connected by a crossover cable. Both have their nics > > appropriately configured, (to 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, resp). I > > cannot > > get them to ping each other. I think the problem is that the telnetd > > service > > is shut off in both of them. > > No, that most definitely is not related. ping and telnet don't even use > the same protocol (ICMP vs. TCP). My guess is that one or both of the > systems is trying to do a reverse DNS lookup on the other when you > try to ping. Add an entry for each of the hosts in /etc/hosts (on both > machines). Then check /etc/nsswitch.conf to be sure that the "hosts" > line looks like this: > hosts: files dns > > > > installed--I can't find it anyway. When I do apt-get install > > /cdrom.../telnetd... > > I get the message that the telnetd package can't be found, even if I > > give the entire path the file as found with the find command. I have > > tried it > > with and without the .deb suffix. > > Apt-get does not work on individual files. If you have a single .deb > that you wish to install use dpkg (e.g. 'dpkg -i telnetd.deb'). Or, > assuming you have /etc/apt/sources.list set up correctly, just run > 'apt-get install telnetd'. I don't know what a souces.list entry should > look like for cdrom access, as all my installation are done via network. > You should probably read 'man 5 sources.list' which will document that > file. man apt-get might help you too.
John, You can try 'apt-cdrom'. See 'man apt-cdrom'. Hope this helps, Daniel > > noah > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > -- Daniel A. Freedman Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics Department of Physics Cornell University
