HP Telnet/iX User's Guide (36957-90156)

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Troubleshooting

Cannot Connect to the Remote Host

• Didyouenterthe correct ARPA domain name,IP address,orNS node

name? See your network administrator.

• Check with your network administrator to ﬁnd out the following:

• Does the remote host system support Telnet?

• Is the network link active on the remote host system?

• If an NS node name was used, make sure it is correctly entered in

the local network directory, or that the remote host supports

Probe, or has local Probe proxy answering for it.

• If an ARPA domain name was used, make sure the name is

conﬁgured in the local HOSTS.NET.SYS ﬁle, or that the

conﬁgured domain name server is responding correctly. If not, use

the IP address.

• Use the PING test of NETTOOL to verify the remote system is

responding on the network.

NETTOOL is documented in the NS 3000/iX Operations and

Maintenance Reference Manual.

• If the remote system is an HP 3000 or HP 9000, verify that inetd

is running, and that Telnet is conﬁgured in the inetd and

SERVICES conﬁguration ﬁle. Also verify that the server software

is installed in the remote system; refer to Conﬁguring and

Managing MPE/iX Internet Services manual.