On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Mike Patterson wrote: > When trying to connect to the server via telnet, it takes a horrendous time > (in the order of minutes) between where it says "Escape character is '^]'" and > "Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 shadowglen.ml.org"
This sounds like in may be a DNS problem. The latest release of netbase doesn't work properly if the /etc/nswitch.conf file is properly set up. Try double checking your DNS configuration and /etc/host.conf, /etc/resolv.conf, and /etc/nsswitch.conf. > The fileserver is also acting as a router to the rest of the internet, and I > can't connect to anything outside the net either (two ethernet cards, one for > external net, one for internal) What does ifconfig and netstat show? -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .