I just upgraded to Mandrake 8.2 from 8.0. I did the format and load thing so I would not have any upgrade issues. Things seemed to go great. I got the system up and running and was very happy with the new release. I tried to telnet to the machine today and I keep getting connection refused. Can't figure it out. I'm not running any firewalling code as far as I know. I'm racking my brain to figure out if I ever tried telnet after the upgrade . It's almost as if telnet was moved to another port or something. FTP works fine and I can ping the machine. I tried telneting from a shell account to localhost and still get connection refused. I've looking everywhere for a clue but I'm out of ideas.

The machine is behind a Linksys firewall/router so I don't think I was hacked.

I appreciate any direction here.

Thanks,
Mbiker

First port of call check to see if inetd or xinetd is installed. I use RH 7.0 that uses xinetd.
In /etc/xinetd.d there should be a file telnet. The contents of mine are:-

# default: on
# description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
# unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
service telnet
{
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
log_on_failure += USERID
}

also try
rpm -qf telnet
You should have telnet-server installed if not install from the rpm

good luck!

I am such a !!!!!!

Well it certainly helps if you have the telnet server installed! Sometimes the simplest things can give you the hardest time.

Thanks for the post. I appreciate the help!

Nice to know it hit the spot!
regards Lazarus