telnet connection refused
 

Hello,

I have installed redhat 7.2 onto an older pentium. inetd services are running and I can telnet to localhost. I can also ftp to localhost, however I cannot either telnet or ftp to the box from another machine on the same network. When I attempt to I rereceive the message connection refused.

I have read other messages talking about checking the /etc/inetd.conf file for certain entries however I do not have an /etc/inetd.conf file AND I have connected to another redhat host running a slightly different kernal version of redhat than the one I am using and it does not have the /etc/inetd.conf file either AND it seems to work just fine for both telnet and ftp. I am curious if somehow a firewall is running on my box but I don't know how to tell for sure. I have tried ps -ax | grep fire and came up with nothing.

Please help,

Thanks,

Marc

turn firewall off

/etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains stop

or

/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop


locate inetd.conf

/etc/xinetd.conf

Hello David,

Thanks for the reply. In the meantime I edited /etc/sysconfig/ipchains and added the following lines:

-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 25 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 80 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 21 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 22 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 23 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT

I then rebooted the box. That seems to have fixed the issue, I can now both Telnet and FTP to the box in question. I will now however, revert to the unedited version of the file and attempt your recomendation.

Thanks again,

Marc

my recommendation was to simply see if it was a firewall issue before we go posting all possible senarios. It obviously was the firewall, so there's no need for any more testing.

thanks, that worked perfectly....


Marc

Cool

Anymore problems just let us know

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Hi Marc,
I have done all these things (including the entries in /etc/sysconfig/ipchgains). But still it is not working((:)

K.V. Srinivas Kumar

try this

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Hi David,

What should I do?

open a xterm or type in a terminal the command

it might do something, it depends on your distro

No. It did not work.

When I typed /sbin/service telnet on
I got
telnet: unrecognised service

I have "telnet" service defined in /etc/services file.

Any clues!!!

I would say it's not installed


try rpm -qa | grep telnet

you probably only have the telnet client installed, and not the server


What are you using Mandrake?

to turn the telnet service on, please use the command:

chkconfig --level 345 telnet on

To make sure that the telnet-server is in your system issue the command:

rpm -q telnet-server

That's not going to work right, telnet is a service in xinetd.d.
You can use chkconfig if you want to instead of service.
To use chkconfig, the command is It's not installed in initd, so levels are not supported

[root@localhost root]# service telnet on
telnet: unrecognized service
[root@localhost root]# chkconfig telnet on
error reading information on service telnet: No such file or directory
[root@localhost root]# telnet
telnet> open localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet>


Seem like i dont have telnet installed on my REd Hat Linux 8.0. Now i want to set up Telnet server and client on my system..What can i do?