telnetd[2193]: getpid: peer died: Connection timed out

[Tim Killinger]

I recently cold installed UX 11.0 on an rp2430. I can telnet from another UX machine, but when I try to telnet directly from a reflections session on my desktop, I get no login prompt, and the message above is logged to syslog.log.

I use the same reflections configurations to connect to several other ux 11.0 machines with no problems... any ideas?

Thanks!

[Steven E. Protter]

If you have a file named /var/adm/inetd.sec

Look for statements with regards to telnet.

This is exactly how the connection would behave and be logged if inetd.sec was blockng telnet.

I'm attaching an example that DOES block telnet to be a refernce for you.

SEP

[Tim Killinger]

Hey Steven,

I DO have an inetd.sec, but only one line is not a comment:

dtspc allow 127.0.0.1 loopback icgstrn1

My other ux 11.0 box does NOT have inetd.sec... do I neet to expressly allow telnet if the file exists?

[Rita C Workman]

Simple question...

Your reflection software is on your PC...so is the IP of your PC easily acknowledged or recognized by your UNIX host?

If it isn't your UNIX host will try to figure out who is 'knocking' and this could take around 90-120 seconds before it will return a login prompt. The problem is, that sometimes the PC software will quit before it gets an answer in time.

Couple ways to fix this....
Be sure the PC IP is referenced via DNS.
-or-
Put the PC IP reference in your /etc/host file..

Just a thought,
Rita

[Tim Killinger]

I found the problem... for some reason all IP parameters were fine, but the gateway address was blank.... I ran set_parms initial and now everything is fine...

Thanks!