[LUNI] telnet

[Gregory W. Eckrich]

Mr. Rock and Mr. Khan--rignt on the mark.  By turning off the ipchains and
iptables the telnet blue telnet server was avaialable.

Thank you both very much!

Greg. Eckrich
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Rock" <david at rock.homelinux.com>
To: <luni at luni.org>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [LUNI] telnet


> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:49:51AM -0500, Arun Khan wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 August 2002 05:01 pm, luni-request at luni.org wrote:
> >
> > Assuming that "telnetd" is running on the remote host; check if the
remote
> > host has any firewall rules (ipchains or iptables --list depending on
the
> > installed kernel) that may be blocking connections.  Also, check
> > /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny on the remote host for DENY rules.
>
> if either of these is set to start, then the easiest way to turn it off
> (temporarily), is:
>
> service iptables stop
> and
> service ipchains stop
>
> just to make sure BOTH are off. So to answer your question on why the
> same distro would have different results, it is very possible that you
> picked the "default" firewall rules on one and perhaps "none" on the
> others?
>
> --
> David Rock
> david at rock.homelinux.com
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