First, the ftp problem --
In /etc/hosts.allow, you need to list the IP addresses of the computers that
you want to let access services on the Linux host. Not the address of the
Linux host itself. To guess from the address you specify, you are using
192.168.0 as your LAN network number. So try adding to /etc/hosts.allow this
line:
ALL: 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
Reboot (or restart inetd) and see if that fixes your problem.
If it doesn't, look in the log file on the Linux system (probably
/var/log/messages) and see what tcpd reported about the ftp attempt.
BTW, the man page for this stuff is a bit tricky to find. You need "man 5
hosts_access", not the first thing (or probably even the 10th) most people
would think of.
Now, the PPP problem --
If the "new kernel" is 2.2.whatever, I seem to recall that an updated pppd
is one of the things you need to change. Not sure about that, though, as I
haven't upgraded yet myself. In any case, try making a ppp connection, then
look in /var/log/messages to see what pppd (and maybe chat, or whatever
dialer you use) says was going on. If you can't interpret the log entries
(not a trivial task), post them and maybe I or someone else can help you
decipher them.
At 05:31 PM 2/12/99 +1300, Ben Handley wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>recently the ftp server on my machine has stopped recieving logins from
>anything other than 127.0.0.1, whereas it used to work from anywhere. I
>yhave changed something in the hosts.allow and hosts.deny to make this
>happen, but i dont know what. I followed the instructions in the various
>ISP howtos (ISP-connect, ISP hookup) which said that i should put in
>ALL:ALL into hosts.deny and ALL:local into hosts.allow, which i did. When
>ftp (and in fact everything except ping) stopped working i realised that i
>should put in something allowing people on our network to access me, which
>didn't seem to work. i added the line ALL:192.168.0.4 which is my ip
>address on the local network and rebooted, but to no avail. When i say ftp
>192.168.0.4 it just comes back with a message that it is connected to the
>machine but doesn't say anything more, and then the terminal window dies,
>unless i kill ftp from another window.
>
>As far as i can tell local has the same permissions as 192.168.0.4, but i
>can't ftp from any other computer either. i definitely used to be able to.
>
>Also, the PPP dialup connection has stopped working (but later, its not hte
>same problem). I was using the Red Hat netcfg, and would just activate the
>ppp0 interface and it would dial. Now when i activate the interface it
>waits ages, then dials, then after a bit more it disconnects. this problem
>started when i installed the new kernel, but i still have it with the old
>one. i definetely have ppp support compiled in, it comes up with the
>messages on startup telling me so and i remember choosing ppp support.
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