Tom,
what did you write in "/etc/hosts.allow" and "/etc/hosts.deny"?
Ove
>Hello,
>
>Thank you very much for your mail. The problem that I am having is that
>there
>does not seem to be any good information on setting up your network on
>mandrake. I am thinking of going back to RedHat.
>
>You were right I did not have the telnet server installed - I installed this
>but
>am still getting the same message. Do you know if there is a website with
>some
>information on trouble shooting networks with mandrake?
>
>Thanks again,
>Tom
>
>Alex V Flinsch wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Alex
>> (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
