I can't telnet to my linuxbox and is in the same network. And I already haven't set hosts.allow and hosts.deny. When I telnet to my box and reply is "getnameinfo." then closed. What is the problem of my box?

Thanks!

Can you ping the IP address?
netmasks set the same?
#ifconfig -a

Is the telnet Daemon running?
# ps -eaf | grep telnet
look for in.telnetd

If so Can you telnet to the IP address?
If you can telnet the IP check out all name resolution stuff

Also check your /etc/hosts file. take out the alias to your actual hostname and the localhost. Put your hostname and IP address on a seoarate line.

and /etc/inittab.conf for the line
hosts files dns nis nis+
make sure files comes before dns. This is your name resolution order

Also check /etc/hosts.conf I think it is. This will have a line containing order and bind. Youll have to check the man pages for details cause I cant remember.

If you can login as a user but cannot login as root check man page on /etc/securetty

Hope this helps?

gethostbyname is a system call. I dont uderstand these things but can you telnet 127.0.0.1? perhaps try this first. If you cant then either telnet is not running or its broken somehow. (not all installed?
try
# rpm -qa | grep telnet
and check you have all the packages installed.

# setup
at the command line and check all the system services.

neil, I can telnet from my linux box to myself(ip), but I can't telnet from remote host to my linux box. And the error is "getnameinfo.". I already check my box follow your messages, but also same. Do you have any guess?
Thanks!

Hey, my friend, the problem already solved and problem is combination of IPv6. And more information you can visit


http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/telnet_getnameinfo.html

Thanks!

What if I'm running Redhat7.1?

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/upd...1/a1/nkitb.rpm

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/upd...1/nkitserv.rpm


will this rpm packages from suse linux works?

I am not sure this rpm packages can/can't running RH7.1, does RH also have this problem? If yes, did you find the patch from RH sites?

I had similar problem but wasn't getnameinfo. It was a firewall issues. Went in and enable FTP and Telnet and got it working. Thanks ...