"connection closed by foreign host" can't telnet or pop a foreign server

2003-10-26 Thread Shawn Lindsay
I can reach it on the web. It can be reached by telnet and pop from another machine (an ibook). My firewall (guarddog) allows telnet. Other servers can be telneted into and popped. The server I can't reach is a polaris. I'm new to dsl and have a new box and I'm rather ignorant of Debian and

Re: Connection closed by foreign host.

1997-03-24 Thread Jason Killen
Ah, good call. I'll try it. Thanks On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Mike Orr wrote: >Perhaps telnet is working properly but something else is causing your >login shell to exit immediately. > >I get a similar response, not with telnet, but with script. I would get >"Script started, output file is types

Re: Connection closed by foreign host.

1997-03-24 Thread Mike Orr
Perhaps telnet is working properly but something else is causing your login shell to exit immediately. I get a similar response, not with telnet, but with script. I would get "Script started, output file is typescript" and then it would immediately exit with "Script done, output file is typescri

Re: Connection closed by foreign host.

1997-03-21 Thread Jason Killen
Simple enough, so easy I should have thought of it myself (TM). daemon.log says Mar 21 00:20:59 rn120006 in.tel[9586]: connect from 127.0.0.1 Ekk. Now I'm really confused, I reinstalled getty and login. Anymore ideas? On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Paul Christenson [N3EOP] wrote: >On Thu, 20 Mar 1997

Re: Connection closed by foreign host.

1997-03-21 Thread Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote: > Which log is "the log"? I'm looked throught last and auth.log but found > nothing. OK; do this: 1. Attempt a telnet session. 2. When it fails, cd to /var/log. 3. ls -ltr The error (if logged) will be in one of the last files listed. (My guess is da

Re: Connection closed by foreign host.

1997-03-20 Thread Maarten Boekhold
> > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to localhost. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > Is there a delay between the 'Escape' and 'Connection closed' lines? If > so, it may be trying to resolve

Re: Connection closed by foreign host.

1997-03-20 Thread Jason Killen
gt; I cant rlogin either but I do get mail along with other >> services. What happens exactally is I try to telnet in and I get >> >> Trying 127.0.0.1... >> Connected to localhost. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> Connection closed by foreign host. >

Re: Connection closed by foreign host.

1997-03-20 Thread Paul Christenson \[N3EOP\]
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote: > I cant rlogin either but I do get mail along with other > services. What happens exactally is I try to telnet in and I get > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > Connection clos

Connection closed by foreign host.

1997-03-19 Thread Jason Killen
rlogin either but I do get mail along with other services. What happens exactally is I try to telnet in and I get Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. I have tried telneting in from off machine but that dosent make any