Re: [newbie] Unable to telnet into Mandrake box

[Jason L Bowne/BOWNJL/LMITCO/INEEL/US]

Hello,
     When i telnet into mandrake box from another unix machine I get the
following:

trying...
conected to server.name.com
local flow control off
connection closed by foreign host

is this a permission problem. Am I not allowing hosts??

thanks,
jason









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Hi Jason,
 There are client and server packages that need to be installed in order
for telnet to work properly. I take it that you are just getting some
sort of message back stating in some fashion that the service is not
available... if I am incorrect in assuming that Please detail what
happens when you try to telnet to your system and I will try to help you
more.

     Good Luck,
          Dave


On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Hello,
>      I just installed Mandrake 6.1 on HP NetServer LH Pro, and love it so
> far..
> I am in the process of decommisioning an HP9000 UNIX server that is
serving
> our web page and just can't see how paying the $3000/year maintenance fee
> on HP-UX is a benefit, when a better, faster, stable OS is free!
>      Anyway after installing, everything seems to work but a few little
> quirks,
> I can't telnet into the linux box.?? I have been researching and
> researching and
> I must not be researching in the right place.  I looked in the inetd.conf
> file and there
> is a section for the ftpd and the telnetd, but if I do a ps -ef |grep
> telnetd it isn't running.
> I can ftp into it just fine??  Any help appreciated.
>      Also if i 'ping hostname' it won't ping, if i 'ping hosname.xxx.com'
> it works.
> Where is the DNS stuff at that I need to change for that to work..
>
> Jason Bowne