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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.
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.
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.
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
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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((
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
Code:
chkconfig telnet on
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?
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