John Oliver wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:15:49 -0400, Joe Blow wrote:
>
>>John Oliver wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Telnet sessions to our HP-UX 11.00 box "freeze" after about 30 seconds.
>>>Nothing shows up in the syslog. There's no securetty (I know it's a
>>>Linux-ism, but that was my first thought...) Where else can I look for
>>>clues?
>>
>>You can get an idea of which half of the world to look (this machine vs
>>the rest of the world) by trying a telnet to the local host loop back.
>>If that fails during the connection, check the DNS, if it fails after
>>the connection is established, its got to be in the local software. If
>>it doesn't fail, then consider reliablility of the net.
>
>
> Telneting to localhost works just fine. DNS is working. After messing
> around a little more, it seems that, as long as I'm doing something, the
> connection will stay up. If I stop typing and hitting enter for more
> than a few seconds, it "freezes".
>
> I really doubt this is a network issue, as I can deal with every other
> UNIX machine in that lab just fine. It just about has to be a software
> issue on the HP-UX machine, but... what? Where would I look? Is there
> maybe a newer telnetd I should be using? Some sort of PAM-like security
> software?
>
what if you just run a small script to loop on the telnet session, does
it still lock up? If it doesnt then it sound like a ttl issue with the
telnet connection.