topic Need help on Telnet or TERM configuration in Operating System - HP-UX

Need help on Telnet or TERM configuration

Simon Qu — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:49:01 GMT

Hi,

I just installed HP UX11i and when I try to telnet from my windows PC I dont see the login prompt.

Thanks

Re: Need help on Telnet or TERM configuration

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:06:59 GMT

This sounds like a personal problem to me. You need to start with the basics. Can you ping the HP-UX box from your PC by IP Address and hostname? Can you ping your PC from your HP-UX box? Have you used traceroute? It might be something as trivial as no telnetd entry in /etc/inetd.conf but you must first establish that you have basic network connectivity.

Re: Need help on Telnet or TERM configuration

Simon Qu — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:29:39 GMT

Yes I can ping I can also see the login prompt but after 20mn

Re: Need help on Telnet or TERM configuration

Bill Hassell — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:55:00 GMT

If you see a very long delay before getting a login prompt, your HP-UX server is most likely failing with DNS. Verify this by using nslookup as in:

nslookup hp.com

If no one responds, you don't have a working DNS server so rename the file /etc/resolv.conf to something like resolv.conf.old and try again. If it works OK, your DNS servers are refusing to talk to your HP-UX box.