Not sure why they would allow telnet and not ssh. However, since I assume they are accomplishing this with port blocking, you can get around it by getting ssh to listen on the telnet port. Or, if you are using a cable modem/firewall, you can do a port forward. :-)
Ric ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: David Obwaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:44:09 +0100 >hi, > >my isp disables me in using ssh, so I'm forced to use telnet to remotely >access my computer. I'll try to change this, but for now I want to set >up telnet. > >I emerged netkit-telnetd along with xinetd and added xinetd to the >default runlevel. in /etc/xinetd.d/telnetd I changed diabled = yes to = >no, so telnet's enabled with xinetd. now, when I access my telnetd using >telnet 127.0.0.1 I can login normally, without any problems, but when I >try to log in from a remote computer on my local network it says >'connection refused by foreign host'. ssh works over lan, but as I said >I need telnet to control my computer remotely. > >am I missing something?? > >thanks in advance for any hints, >David > > >-- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
