Re: [hylafax-users] Newbie can't get WHFC to go

[Colin McKinnon <colin@wew.co.uk>]

At 16:25 17/10/01 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
>Colin McKinnon wrote:
> > 1) WHFC takes forever to connect to the server. Both forward (A) and
> > reverse (PTR) DNS lookups seem to be working but it takes approx 3 minutes
> > before it asks me for a password. If I telnet to port 4559 from the same
> > client I get connected without any sort of delay.
>
>This looks like http://www.transcom.de/whfc/whfc_faq.html
>topic "Why must i enter a password" in conjunction with
>some DNS Problems.

<snip>

two network cards or a modem connection installed on this machine?

>Uli

Wow. Quick feedback here. Thanks for the suggestions. There was a dial-up 
adapter configured for the PC. I've now taken off both the TCP/IP settings 
for the dial-up adapter and the adapter itself, rebooted, and still no joy 
:( I also tried taking out the entry for my gateway router (which had a 
corresponding entry in the Windows boxes routing table) and that didn't 
improve things either (both machines are on the same subnet).

I do get lots of connect buttons. The /var/spool/hylafax/etc/hosts.hfaxd 
seems OK:
         localhost
         127.0.0.1
         colin@::QAVjkylr6pXAo

(I'll tighten it up a little once I've got everything else working).

I'm assuming that this file replaces the 'hosts' file in earlier versions - 
since I do get connected eventually via WHFC and immediately via telnet 
from the client.

The routing table on my PC looks like:

C:\WINDOWS>route print

Active Routes:

   Network Address          Netmask  Gateway Address        Interface  Metric
         126.0.0.0    255.255.254.0      126.0.0.104      126.0.0.104       1
       126.0.0.104  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1       1
   126.255.255.255  255.255.255.255      126.0.0.104      126.0.0.104       1
         127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1        127.0.0.1       1
         224.0.0.0        224.0.0.0      126.0.0.104      126.0.0.104       1
   255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255      126.0.0.104      126.0.0.104       1






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