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 > : > : >
