From: Chris Wells (Chris.Wells@purplet.demon.co.uk)
Date: 01/05/93


From: Chris.Wells@purplet.demon.co.uk (Chris Wells)
Subject: AAAAAAGHHHHHH! Wake up fingerd!
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:49:00 +0000

Hi Linuxers,

OKAY! This is an Easy question:

Has anyone got finger to work from other machine to the Linux host? eg,
finger @thishost, where "thishost" is a 486DX33 8Mb, running 0.99pl2.

All I get back is:

[thishost.linux.net]

The same thing happens if I do a "telnet thishost 79".

Oh, and I'm running most of the latest SLS binaries.

I would REALLY like to know what the matter is.
Furthermore I can't get talk to work "Destination machine does not recognise
us", or something like that.

Telnet, and FTP work almost perfectly. (Okay, Telnet expects ^J for a line
to be accepted, but most hosts I have used that have telnet send ^M.
Similarly for ^? and ^H ).

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Reply (via email PLEASE to "cjw1@ukc.ac.uk". The host
is down at the moment which explains why I am using a Bulletin Board).

Chris
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