Yep, the firewall was set up to refuse connections on ports below 1023,
and xinetd has a configuration file for each protocol, all of which
default to 'disabled'.
Thanks, everybody.
-jdr-
Ray Olszewski wrote:
> OK, Jim. Your answers rule out a lot of possibilities.
>
> First thing is to look at the firewall. (Yes, you do have one; the ipchains
> command you ran told you what it was.) I *think* this entry ...
>
> REJECT tcp -y---- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 * -> 0:1023
>
> ... is preventing connections to the telnet (23) and ftp (21) ports from
> completing. Try clearing your firewall ruleset with this command (as root,
> from the command line)
>
> ipchains -F input
>
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