On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, h a wrote:
> i have two machines running redhat linux 6.0, i have a pci netgear
> ethernet card in both of them.from the control panel i added the
> hostname, interface, and the hosts info correctly. i can ping each
> machine from the other with no problem. i can telnet from the first
> machine to the second one fine, but when i tried to telnet from the
> second machine to the first one i got this error message: telnet:
> Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused. what is going on
> here? what do i have to do to fix this problem ?
To start with, check the following: is inetd on the first machine
configured to handle telnetd? are your hosts.deny and hosts.access files
correctly configured? do you have any kind of firewall in place? If
necessary, turn up your system logging to try to gather some more
information.
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