Hmm, that makes it a little more open as to what the problem might be. If it were my box I would try the following (based on the assumption that you are connected to the net with an ethernet interface): 1) see if I can ping my box locally to see if my interfaces are configured ping 127.0.0.1 (If it works means that your lo interface is working) ping your.actual.ip.here (If it works it PROBABLY means that your eth0 interface is working correctly) 2) see if I can ping my box externally to further see if my interfaces are working properly ping your.actual.ip.here (If it works then your box is definitely visible from the outside world) 3) see if inetd is running ps -ef |grep inet should result in a lines like: root 435 1 0 Jan23 ? 00:00:01 inetd root 28725 28349 0 14:31 pts/1 00:00:00 grep inet 4) see if the tcp_wrappers package is installed this is the tcpd piece that you see in inetd.conf, do a man tcpd for more info (if it's installed of course.) rpm -qa |grep wrapper Should result in something like: tcp_wrappers-7.6-8mdk 5) try using tcpdump to see what your ethernet interface is actually seeing when you telnet or ftp to it. This is a great tool. Reading the man page is really useful for getting the most of it. tcpdump -i eth0 6) beyond this I am not sure. Again if it were my box I would then start looking for more answers on deja news and begin trying uninstalling and re-installing packages right up to wiping out my box and re-installing from scratch. (That would be absolute last straw however.) Good luck, let us know how it goes. Scott Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jurgen.tzo.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Elvis Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [newbie] Mandrake7: security level 3 and > ftp/telnet deamon > > > > hi Scott, > > yes, the necessary packages are installed, and I have > verified that the > correct binaries (as indicated by /etc/inetd.conf) are there as well. > Still, telnet/ftp doesn't work in security level 3. > > thanx, > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Scott Petersen wrote: > > If you don't get a line something like the following then > you don't have the > > telnet server installed and you won't be able to telnet to > your box (this is > > from a Mandrake 6.1 box YMMV): > > > > telnet-server-0.12-10mdk > > > ftp server. Accoring to /etc/inetd.conf, the lines for > telnet/ftp are > > > un-commented. Under /usr/sbin, both in.telnetd and in.ftpd > > > are present. >
