Search Again: Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working From: Bill Warner Date: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 Time: 12:55:47 pm At 11:27 AM 7/21/98 -0700, Shawn Hogan wrote: >Well, I have the source code to a commercial-grade telnet client that >DOES work properly with BSDI... so I'll see what I can figure out with >that first. For one thing, they probably set the terminal type during negotiation, that way tset won't prompt for it later. Anyway, let me know if you ever do want to peek at the BSDI source... >Well I'm going to play with it a little more today, and if I really can't >figure it out, I might put it on the shelf for awhile so I can get some >other stuff done, and just let people know about the tset workaround. Yeah, IMO that's not necessarily a bad option. After all, your original telnet client *does* work, and this is as much, if not more, a shell account config. issue as a telnet issue. >It's just very frustrating for me... Not that it doesn't work, but >because I don't know the telnet protocol inside-out and backwards like I >do databases and some other things. :-) Heh, I know that feeling, but we can't all be experts at everything... >At least I know there is some sort of workaround until I get this >negotiation thing working right on BSDI machines. (There is actually one >company that is telnetting into a FreeBSD machine, and then opening a >telnet session from that shell to their BSDI box... ugly but it worked I >guess.) hehe Ugly and unnecessary. All they have to do is configure the shell account not to prompt, or configure Optigold-ISP to answer the "Terminal type?" prompt. Trivial. You wouldn't blame your telnet client if someone had their shell account configured to use S/Key logins and failed to set Opigold-ISP to give the correct responses, would you? As far as I can see, this is the same thing. People have their accounts configured to prompt for something (terminal type) and they are not supplying the correct response. *** Keep in mind that all of this applies to your *old* telnet client. I haven't had a chance to DL the new one... --Bill

Messages In This Thread: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Serge Pluess on Jul 20, 1998 at 3:13:26 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 20, 1998 at 4:12:32 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Graeme Easton on Jul 20, 1998 at 6:04:46 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Graeme Easton on Jul 20, 1998 at 6:45:11 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 20, 1998 at 7:15:29 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Graeme Easton on Jul 20, 1998 at 8:15:25 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Graeme Easton on Jul 20, 1998 at 8:31:12 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 20, 1998 at 8:39:32 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Serge Pluess on Jul 20, 1998 at 10:27:22 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 20, 1998 at 11:07:39 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Graeme Easton on Jul 21, 1998 at 4:52:00 am Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Bill Warner on Jul 21, 1998 at 11:00:00 am Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 21, 1998 at 11:32:11 am Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Bill Warner on Jul 21, 1998 at 12:55:47 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 21, 1998 at 1:12:14 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Serge Pluess on Jul 21, 1998 at 1:49:10 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Shawn Hogan on Jul 21, 1998 at 2:09:51 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Jesse Trucks on Jul 21, 1998 at 2:30:23 pm Re: Telnet to BSDI still not working by Jesse Trucks on Jul 21, 1998 at 2:40:36 pm