unable telnet to 127.0.0.1

joseph · 08-18-2003, 11:30 PM

Dear all,

please help me,
i type telnet 127.0.0.1 but it got return :Unable to connect toremote host: Connection refused

do you know how to settle it?

darthtux · 08-18-2003, 11:34 PM

127.0.0.1 is the loopback address for the local machine. You can't telnet to it. You can ping it though.

Why are you trying to telnet to it?

joseph · 08-18-2003, 11:36 PM

because i want try to setup a dns server, do you have any idea?

darthtux · 08-18-2003, 11:40 PM

Telnet has nothing to do with setting up a DNS server on your own machine.

Try starting here
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...DNS-HOWTO.html

joseph · 08-18-2003, 11:47 PM

but in site that you recomended, it state that "you should be able to do telnet 127.0.0.1 and get your own machine"
can explain the mean?

darthtux · 08-19-2003, 12:25 AM

You can type serviceconf from the command-line or in GNOME go to
Programs -> System -> Service Configuration
and turn on Telnet

shellcode · 08-19-2003, 01:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by joseph
but in site that you recomended, it state that "you should be able to do telnet 127.0.0.1 and get your own machine"
can explain the mean?

obviously you can only telnet into your machine if you have a telnet server running. what they mean is that you should have the loopback device setup. im certain that both mandrake and redhat do this automatically.