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Old 01-22-2004, 11:53 PM   #1
ashusharma
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Unhappy Remote telnet gets 'Connection refused'


On a fresh Redhat 8.0 machine, telnet wasn't enabled by default. So, I edited /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and changed "disable = yes" to "disable = no".
Then, I executed the "/etc/init.d/xinetd restart".
Now, if I telnet to localhost, there's no problem at all, and I am shown a login prompt. But if telnet to the machine remotely, I get a 'Connection refused'.

I remember this had worked earlier on another machine...

Is there something I am msising? Is there something else I should be doing?

regards,
Ashutosh
 
Old 01-23-2004, 01:32 AM   #2
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any firewall config set up? like iptables or ipchains? how about tcpwrappers - /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny?
 
Old 01-23-2004, 02:57 AM   #3
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Nothing special has been set up. Whatever came set up with the OS installation.

/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are blank (there are only commented lines in those two files).

How do I check if iptables or ipchains are causing the problem?

Do I need to do a 'iptables -- flush' after enabling telnet?
 
Old 01-23-2004, 07:50 AM   #4
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what shows

iptables -L

?
 
Old 01-23-2004, 09:48 AM   #5
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Since you're using RH you can run lokkit from the console and easily configure the firewall to allow telnet...
 
Old 01-27-2004, 01:12 AM   #6
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Ok. will try lokkit... thanks
 
  


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