rh 7.2 and telnet

adamj · 04-25-2002, 12:50 PM

Hi,

I have a Red Hat 7.2 installation and am having a telnet problem. When I attempt to telnet to his machine from another host, I get this error:

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

However, when use the command "telnet 0" from this local machine, I get right in. I checked the /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file and made sure that the "disable" line is set to "no". It appears that there is a configuration issue here but am not sure what that might be. Any ideas?

Thank you,

siddiqu · 04-26-2002, 04:20 AM

Hi..

Have u enbaled firewall on ur machine with high security ??

Check ur /etc/hosts.deny file.

Remove any entry line ANY:ANY

SIddiqu.T

adamj · 04-26-2002, 10:23 AM

Thanks for the reply Siddiqu,

I fixed the problem by disabling "ipchains" and "iptables".

acid_kewpie · 04-26-2002, 10:28 AM

hmm, removing a firewall is hardly a "fix" !