Re: networking 2 pcs
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:24:09PM -0500, john connolly wrote:
> > I have two pcs connected by a crossover cable. Both have their nics
> > appropriately configured, (to 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, resp). I
> > cannot
> > get them to ping each other. I think the problem is that the telnetd
> > service
> > is shut off in both of them.
>
> No, that most definitely is not related. ping and telnet don't even use
> the same protocol (ICMP vs. TCP). My guess is that one or both of the
> systems is trying to do a reverse DNS lookup on the other when you
> try to ping. Add an entry for each of the hosts in /etc/hosts (on both
> machines). Then check /etc/nsswitch.conf to be sure that the "hosts"
> line looks like this:
> hosts: files dns
>
>
> > installed--I can't find it anyway. When I do apt-get install
> > /cdrom.../telnetd...
> > I get the message that the telnetd package can't be found, even if I
> > give the entire path the file as found with the find command. I have
> > tried it
> > with and without the .deb suffix.
>
> Apt-get does not work on individual files. If you have a single .deb
> that you wish to install use dpkg (e.g. 'dpkg -i telnetd.deb'). Or,
> assuming you have /etc/apt/sources.list set up correctly, just run
> 'apt-get install telnetd'. I don't know what a souces.list entry should
> look like for cdrom access, as all my installation are done via network.
> You should probably read 'man 5 sources.list' which will document that
> file. man apt-get might help you too.
John,
You can try 'apt-cdrom'. See 'man apt-cdrom'.
Hope this helps,
Daniel
>
> noah
>
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