I ran into that problem today too... I set up another linux box with my friend and we
we telnetted into eachother
> ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem with Telnet
> ** Original Sender: xaos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ** Original Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:54:11 -0600
> ** Original Message follows...
>
> On Tuesday 21 November 2000 00:05, some strange person did etch this in stone:
> > Hi, I am having a problem with telnet into my linux box too. I can telnet
> > into remote sites, but cannot do it other way around. It always tells me
> > that "connection closed by foreign host".
> >
> > In my /etc/inetd.conf I had it setup like following.
> > telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd -l -a
> >
> > Can some one give me idea? what does "-l" and "-a" mean ?
> >
> > oh... i setup security as medium when I first install the system.
> >
>
>
> comment out the localhost part in the /etc/hosts.deny
>
> -x.
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