Check xinetd.d folder. Make sure that telnet and ftp are not disabled. If
you modify either, you will have to restart xinetd. Use
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
At 04:07 PM 5/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm having problems with one of our Linux machines. It's running Red
>Hat 7.0, and it's part of an NIS network with several other Red Hat 6.1
>and 7.0 machines. The problem is that I cannot telnet or ftp into this
>machine. I can't even telnet into localhost on this machine. This is
>the error message when trying to telnet into itself:
>
>Trying 127.0.0.1...
>telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
>
>I get a similar connection refused error when trying to ftp. I tried
>setting the security real low with this /etc/hosts.allow:
>
>#
># hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are
># allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
># by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
>#
>
>#in.telnetd: LOCAL
>#in.ftpd: LOCAL
>
>#ALL: 192.168.230.
>#ALL: 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.0
>
>ALL: ALL
>
>
>It still refuses to allow telnet or ftp connections. I've tried
>restarting xinetd. It seems to be on the NIS OK. I can telnet out to
>other machines from this machine, but it won't allow other machines to
>telnet in to it. Here are the installed telnet and ftp packages:
>
>telnet-0.17-10
>telnet-server-0.17-10
>ncftp-3.0.2-1
>ftp-0.17-7
>tftp-server-0.17-9
>gftp-2.0.7b-3
>
>
>Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
>
>Hidong
>
>
>
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