telnet

[Nelson Garcia]

Can you telnet to localhost?
Can you telnet out? If you don't have a site that will let you test your
telnet connection, you can test by telnetting to the Hawaii State Library
system's public telnet server (telnet://fyi.icsd.hawaii.gov/).

Are you trying to telnet as a regular user or a privileged user (i.e. root)?
Are you even getting to the userid prompt?

Is your system chroot'ed?  I think that could cause telnetd to not know
where certain files are.

Good luck,
Nelson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Davis" <rodney at wincubic.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:26 AM
Subject: [luau] telnet


> I can't get telnet to work correctly.  When I try connecting from a remote
> machine the connection is refused.  I have checked my /etc/hosts.deny (all
> commented out) and /etc/hosts.allow (ALL : ALL : allow) and made sure that
> telnet is uncommented on inetd.conf.  And, I restarted /etc/rc.d/init/inet
> after doing all of this. When I telnet in it hangs for a second or to
after
> connection and then it is rejected.
>
> Are there any dependencies that I am missing and need to start in order to
> get telnet working correctly?  What else should I do to get this running.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> rodney
>
>
> BTW, dist.: Mandrake 7.2
>
>