Art,

How does the server get fired off?  inetd?  Stand alone?  hosts.allow is 
used by tcpd, only if use tcpd explicitly to start the server.

Can you connect via telnet locally?

-- Ghane

At 01:06 PM 6/26/2000 -0600, Art Sackett wrote:
>Greetings, All:
>
>Please forgive me if this is documented somewhere -- a pointer to the
>documentation would be greatly appreciated!
>
>I've got a custom (just wrote it) standalone TCP/IP server daemon that 
>listens
>on a high port and works fine servicing connections from localhost. However,
>when I try to connect (via telnet) from any other machine on the network, I
>get "connection refused". I tried editing /etc/hosts.allow so it contains the
>single line ALL:ALL and then /etc/init.d/netbase restart, to no avail.
>(Reverted back to what it used to be right after -- it's an 
>internet-connected
>machine.)
>
>I know it has to be an easy, probably obvious, operation to get this port
>opened up, I just cannot find it. Any help anyone can provide would be
>appreciated.
>
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