Have you updated your telnet?
Try to telnet to your machine.
Check the '/var/log/messages' to see if you get more info.
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Ron Smith wrote:
> Wednesday night, sometime between Midnight and 7 AM Thursday morning my Telnet
> Server appears to have quit working. I only have two user accounts on the
> Linux-Mandrake box set up, one for me, and one for my son who connects from
> out of state. Now when we connect via the Internet all we get is the message
> "Connection to host lost."
>
> What changed? Got me... Sometime during the time frame mentioned above
> uswest.net changed my Dynamic IP Address. This required me to remap the
> ports - a task I have done several times over the past two months. No big
> deal -- except that the router (Cisco 675 at 216.161.136.168) maps port 23 to
> the Linux box (10.0.0.5) but doesn't work. Since the ftp and http servers
> work I can only presume that there is a problem with the Telnet Server on the
> Linux box.
>
> I would also like to know how to check to see if the Telnet Server is actually
> running. Sorry, I'm still a newbie in many areas. :-)
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
>
> Thanks
>
> Ron Smith
> Boise, Idaho
>
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