Re: [newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host

2000-04-17 Thread Thomas Cattigan
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 ex

Re: [newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host

2000-04-17 Thread Ove Peter
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

Re: [newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host

2000-04-16 Thread Thomas Cattigan
Hello, Sorry for not responding to your mail Stephen, I did get it. I have already uncommented out the line that you mention but I still get the same message. I am beginning to think that the configuration is not as it should be. I am having a lot of difficulty get around this problem. My Win

Re: [newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host

2000-04-16 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, you wrote: > > 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? > Now you need to uncomment the telnet

Re: [newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host

2000-04-16 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Thomas Cattigan wrote: > > 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 i

Re: [newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host

2000-04-16 Thread Thomas Cattigan
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

Re: [newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host

2000-04-16 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Thomas Cattigan 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 1. Is telnetd installed? 2. Is the line r

Re: [newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host

2000-04-16 Thread Alex V Flinsch
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.al

[newbie] Telnet connection closed by foreign host

2000-04-16 Thread Thomas Cattigan
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 a