Re: telnet to my machine

[Bryan Scaringe <Bryan.Scaringe@computer.org>]

Pardon my ignorance, but how does one "look up ones IP address
in the DNS".  Just for future reference.

Thanks,
        Bryan



On 20-Sep-99 Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 06:50:44PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
> 
>> I have installed Debian on my computer. Surprinsingly, sometimes when I
>> try to stablish a telnet conection to my machine I obtain the following
>> message:
> 
> Does reverse DNS work for your host (ie, if you look up your IP address
> in the DNS do you get a response)?  If not, the problem is likely to be 
> that the remote machine is timing out the login because it takes too
> long to try to discover your machine's name.
> 
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