Not a silly question,  though you might think these are.
What is a telnet port?
What is a port scanner?

Bill
> The silly question (obviously) would be to ask if you have a telnet port
> open.  What does your favourite port scanner tell you?
>
> Greg
> --- -
>
> Bill Evans is on permanent record as saying:
> :I have two computers networked together one running RH7.0   (192.168.1.1)
> :the other RH7.3  (192.168.1.2)
> :I can successfully ping each from the other.
> :When I try to telnet however I get the following.
> :On the RH7.3
> :# telnet 192.168.1.1
> :telnet: connect to address 192.168.1.1 :Connection refused
> :
> :On the RH7.0
> :#telnet  192.168.1.2
> :Trying 192.168.1.2...
> :telnet:  Unable to connect to remote host:  Connection refused
> :
> :/etc/hosts is the same on each computer:
> :192.168.1.2   duron.localnet.net      duron
> :127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain      localhost
> :192.168.1.1  pentium.localnet.net     pentium
> :
> :I would be grateful for advice on how to sort this out
> :
> :Bill
> :
> :
>

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