Hi,
I am not at my machine just now but I think that the hosts.allow and
hosts.deny are ok, I saw some help on one of the mandrakeusers pages
which explained what to put in these files.
I eventually gave up last night, but one thing I did try was to use
telnet -debug on a different port. For example, telnet -debug 3000 and
then I connected from a terminal session:
telnet localhost 3000 - this allowed me to connect! It seems that there
may be a conflict on port 23 - I am not too sure how to correct this or
to check what is running on port 23.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your reply.
Tom
Ove Peter wrote:
>
> 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)
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