On Tuesday 21 November 2000 00:05, some strange person did etch this in stone:
> Hi, I am having a problem with telnet into my linux box too. I can telnet
> into remote sites, but cannot do it other way around. It always tells me
> that "connection closed by foreign host".
>
> In my /etc/inetd.conf I had it setup like following.
> telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd -l -a
>
> Can some one give me idea? what does "-l" and "-a" mean ?
>
> oh... i setup security as medium when I first install the system.
>
comment out the localhost part in the /etc/hosts.deny
-x.
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