Re: [newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host

[Alex V Flinsch]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying to set up my telnet connection.  I can ping my
> hostname and localhost.  However, when I try to telnet, using telnet
> localhost, I get the following message:
> connection closed by foreign host
> 
> I have checked the /etc/hosts.allow file and allowed access to everyone.
> 
> Does anyone have any possible solutions for this?

Most likely, you installed the telnet cliend and not the telnet server. They
were split into 2 separate rpm's a few releases ago.

Check your distro disk, and install telnet-server


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Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)