OK, Jim. Your answers rule out a lot of possibilities.
First thing is to look at the firewall. (Yes, you do have one; the ipchains
command you ran told you what it was.) I *think* this entry ...
REJECT tcp -y---- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 * -> 0:1023
... is preventing connections to the telnet (23) and ftp (21) ports from
completing. Try clearing your firewall ruleset with this command (as root,
from the command line)
ipchains -F input
and see if it makes a difference.
If not, here are a couple of other thoughts, more long shots than real
suggestions.
Let me ask one clarifying question. When you said, in your first message ...
>>>Telnet and ftp from a Windows box to the Linux box time out (no connection).
... do you really mean "time out"? That is, does the Windows host eventually
give up, or do you at some point give up? In either case, how long have you
waited? In your second message, you said:
>/etc/inetd.conf contains:
>ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpd
>telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
You might be experiencing reverse-lookup delays, if the Linux host's
/etc/hosts (or your on-LAN DNS server, if you have one) does not include
entries for the Windows hosts.
That guess doesn't explain the Linux host's own "connection refused"
message, though. For those, I'd check whether the apps /usr/sbin/in.ftpd and
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd (and, for that matter, /usr/sbin/tcpd) are actually
installed on the system. I'd also see if you have any entries in
/etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny that interfere with the connections.
Finally, tcpd is pretty good about logging, so you might check your logs to
see what they tell you.
With that run through, I'm about empty.
At 07:46 PM 6/30/01 -0500, Jim Reimer wrote:
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