Re: Telnet sessions "freezing"

From: Alan D Johnson (adjtech_at_usadatanet.net)
Date: 10/23/04

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    John Oliver wrote:

    > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:15:49 -0400, Joe Blow wrote:
    >
    >>John Oliver wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>Telnet sessions to our HP-UX 11.00 box "freeze" after about 30 seconds.
    >>>Nothing shows up in the syslog. There's no securetty (I know it's a
    >>>Linux-ism, but that was my first thought...) Where else can I look for
    >>>clues?
    >>
    >>You can get an idea of which half of the world to look (this machine vs
    >>the rest of the world) by trying a telnet to the local host loop back.
    >>If that fails during the connection, check the DNS, if it fails after
    >>the connection is established, its got to be in the local software. If
    >>it doesn't fail, then consider reliablility of the net.
    >
    >
    > Telneting to localhost works just fine. DNS is working. After messing
    > around a little more, it seems that, as long as I'm doing something, the
    > connection will stay up. If I stop typing and hitting enter for more
    > than a few seconds, it "freezes".
    >
    > I really doubt this is a network issue, as I can deal with every other
    > UNIX machine in that lab just fine. It just about has to be a software
    > issue on the HP-UX machine, but... what? Where would I look? Is there
    > maybe a newer telnetd I should be using? Some sort of PAM-like security
    > software?
    >
    what if you just run a small script to loop on the telnet session, does
    it still lock up? If it doesnt then it sound like a ttl issue with the
    telnet connection.


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