Re: [cobalt-users] Re: [Cobalt] [raq2] security update help

[Rickard Osser <ricky@xxxxxxxx>]

If you try to telnet from the raq2 to itself do 'telnet localhost' and
'telnet www.atoznet.com' then you'll notice normal speeds.

It's not your DNS on the RaQ2 itself... It's that the machine you are
trying to telnet and ftp from is not in the DNS!!! That's the machine
which has to be in the DNS. Add your workstation to the DNS-server (if it
belongs to the same domain and IP-net of course).

BTW, delete the following record:
208.23.119.176/24     ->      atoznet.com             reverse pointer

It doesn't have a hostname and shadows the "good" record below!

Best regards,

Rickard Osser
Manager
Osser Brosoft AB		Distributor of Cobalt Networks servers
Maria Bangata 6			Computer Consultants
S-118 63 Stockholm, Sweden	Networking, DOS/Win/Mac/Linux/Unix
Tel: +46-8-798 29 27		E-mail: ricky@xxxxxxxx
Fax: +46-8-668 89 10		WWW: http://www.brosoft.net

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Clayton McGow wrote:

> Rickard, 
> 
> Well, your "netstat -n" _does_ pull up instantly, but I'm not sure
> what's wrong with the dns records:
> 
> atoznet.com 	 	->	208.23.119.176 		A record
> raq7.atoznet.com 	->	208.23.118.206 		primary
> www.atoznet.com 	->	208.23.119.176 		A record
> ftp.atoznet.com 	->	www.atoznet.com 	alias
> news.atoznet.com 	->	news.ezzi.net 		alias
> pop.atoznet.com 	->	atoznet.com 		alias
> smtp.atoznet.com 	->	ezzi.net 			alias
> 208.23.119.176/24 	->	atoznet.com 		reverse pointer
> 208.23.118.206/24 	->	raq7.atoznet.com 	reverse
> 208.23.119.176/24 	->	www.atoznet.com 	reverse
> atoznet.com 		->	atoznet.com 		mx
> 
> other than the fact that I seem to have two reverse pointers 208.23.119.176.
> 
> Now, the server dns1.free-dns.com is listed a a secondary name server.
> I'm sure this is the dumbest question in the history of the internet
> but... should I have a record to them here? Should he be updating his records?
> 
> Thanks for your help, I'm sure these questions are pretty primitive to
> you guys, but a ringer to me.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Clayton, don't change back to the old sysklogd...
> > The problems you are having is DNS related.
> > Is the machine you are using in the reverse DNS database? If not, then
> > that's what's causing your problems.
> > 
> > Try writing 'netstat -n', if that command works instantly it's because it
> > doesn't do a gethostbyname() call as it would without the '-n' switch.
> > 
> > Check your DNS before doing anything else.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Rickard Osser
> > Manager
> > Osser Brosoft AB                Distributor of Cobalt Networks servers
> > Maria Bangata 6                 Computer Consultants
> > S-118 63 Stockholm, Sweden      Networking, DOS/Win/Mac/Linux/Unix
> > Tel: +46-8-798 29 27            E-mail: ricky@xxxxxxxx
> > Fax: +46-8-668 89 10            WWW: http://www.brosoft.net
> > 
> > > Clayton McGow wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello all.
> > > >
> > > > Since I installed the raq2 security update mentioned as the first
> > > > message on 11/21/99 in this newsgroup (sysklogd-1.3.33-9C2), my ftp and
> > > > telnet connections are running so slow, I can't always get logged in
> > > > before the connection times out! Furthermore, when I type "netstat" from
> > > > the telnet prompt, my machine hangs for a looong time before it
> > > > responds... when it responds at all.
> > > >
> > > > This may be some kind of unrelated phenomena, but that seems like an
> > > > unlikely coincidence. I would like to remove the security patch
> > > > immediately, unfortunately I must be nervous wreck because I can't find
> > > > where it was installed. uhhh, can someone instruct me on how to _remove_
> > > > the security patch?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Clayton McGow
> > > > support@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > http://www.atoznet.com
> 
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