Re: [SLUG] I am having TELNET problem in RedHat Linux 7.2

[Zhasper <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quite possibly, while installing Redhat, you chose to set up a firewall..

Try running firewall-config and turning all the firewalling off...

On Mon, 27 May 2002, David wrote:

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> have you checked /etc/hosts.allow? i'm not sure what RH default is.
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> On Mon, 27 May 2002, Upendra wrote:
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> > Dear friends,
> > I have two DELL machines both running RedHat Linux 7.2 connected to each
> > other by a crossover cable.  I can ping one from the other other without any
> > problem.
> > But I can not telnet to the telnet server from either one.  I modified the
> > file in /etc/xinet.d/telnet where disalbe=no and I  restarted
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd ..but I am still not able to telnet.  From the
> > machine itself, I can telnet to itself, but from other machine, it says
> > connection refused.
> >
> > any help would be appreciated.
> > Thanks
> > Upendra
> >
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