Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: On 3/27/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. The localhost is not a service it's an ip. Jerry .. Jerry, I'm not understanding the signicance of that. You used a wrong term. That's all. Ping is resolving localhost to the ip, yes? Well, no. ping is

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: On 3/27/06, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can I not telnet to my own localhost? Because the services you want to connect to are not available. Yes, it does, thank you. How do I find out why they're not available, though? In the logs. Is leafnode using

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: On 3/27/06, Matt Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THUFIR HAWAT wrote: Why can I not telnet to my own localhost? Is leafnode enabled? Or is it still disabled? Check your xinetd configuration. I think it's enabled, see below. Yes, it is, you're right. What's

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: Based on the /var/log/messages I don't think I have the FQDN correctly set. What makes you think so? localhost ~ # netstat -a|grep LISTEN Is xinetd running? Alexander Skwar -- BOFH Excuse #451: astropneumatic oscillations in the water-cooling --

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: On 3/27/06, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THUFIR HAWAT wrote: Then I'd look at logs. xinetd can be finicky about starting services if they aren't configured right. I'd restart xinetd I've been rebooting :( Is there a better way? Ofcourse, there is. eselect rc

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-28 Thread Andrew Frink
did you enable telnet in your xinetd configs?On 3/27/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/27/06, Gabriel Dain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you really wanted to telnet to yourself (i dont see any circumstance in which this would be useful), you'd have to set up a telnet/ssh server:

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: On 3/27/06, Gabriel Dain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you really wanted to telnet to yourself (i dont see any circumstance in which this would be useful), you'd have to set up a telnet/ssh server: http://freessh.org/unix.html -- Gabriel Dain .. I emerged netkit-telnetd

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: Why can I not telnet to my own localhost? Is leafnode enabled? Or is it still disabled? Check your xinetd configuration. Alexander Skwar -- People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread Matt Richards
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: Why can I not telnet to my own localhost? Is leafnode enabled? Or is it still disabled? Check your xinetd configuration. Alexander Skwar -- People who go to conferences are the ones who shouldn't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list you might want to also try

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/27/06, Matt Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THUFIR HAWAT wrote: Why can I not telnet to my own localhost? Is leafnode enabled? Or is it still disabled? Check your xinetd configuration. I think it's enabled, see below. Alexander Skwar -- People who go to conferences are

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/27/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. The localhost is not a service it's an ip. Jerry .. Jerry, I'm not understanding the signicance of that. Ping is resolving localhost to the ip, yes? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ping localhost

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/27/06, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Well, it seems leafnote is either _not_ up and running or not listening for connections on network interface lo. Pardon, I'm not understanding what you mean by network interface. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet localhost Trying

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/27/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 05:58 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I want to test that leafnode is up and running, so am using telnet: [snip] Why can I not telnet to my own localhost? maybe your services are not listening on lo, and only on eth0? --

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread Arnau Bria Ramírez
El Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:28:20 +0100 THUFIR HAWAT dijo: Nice quote :) Interesting, lo versus eth0. I don't understand the question, as I don't know what lo means, but that might be it :) lo refers to an interface? # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:02:15:CA:1F

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread kashani
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I want to test that leafnode is up and running, so am using telnet: Wow, you got some wacky ass answers on this. First off telneting to the port should work as long as you're on the same box since it's supposed to be running on 127.0.0.1 otherwise known as lo or the

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 27, 2006, at 12:51 PM, kashani wrote: THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I want to test that leafnode is up and running, so am using telnet: Wow, you got some wacky ass answers on this. First off telneting to the port should work as long as you're on the same box since it's supposed to be

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/27/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. As root a netstat -ptln might tell you if xinetd is holding the port, but since xinetd is a superdaemon of sorts it might not show it on the port unless there is a working connection... I'm not sure and have no desire to install xinetd

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread kashani
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I've been rebooting :( Is there a better way? /etc/init.d/xinetd stop /etc/init.d/xinetd start or /etc/init.d/xinetd restart localhost ~ # date Mon Mar 27 21:30:44 IST 2006 localhost ~ # I and many others aren't inclined to go searching through a page and half of

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/27/06, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I've been rebooting :( Is there a better way? /etc/init.d/xinetd stop /etc/init.d/xinetd start or /etc/init.d/xinetd restart Ah, thank you :) localhost ~ # date Mon Mar 27 21:30:44 IST 2006 localhost ~ # I and

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 00:02 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: Thanks all, yes, the telnet is working :) Just a few minutes ago it wasn't, but I played around with the hosts file. I don't understand why it's working now and not before because I'm still using a FQDN which I was using from the

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 27. März 2006 16:25 schrieb ext THUFIR HAWAT: On 3/27/06, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Well, it seems leafnote is either _not_ up and running or not listening for connections on network interface lo. Pardon, I'm not understanding what you mean by network

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-26 Thread Gabriel Dain
If you really wanted to telnet to yourself (i dont see any circumstance in which this would be useful), you'd have to set up a telnet/ssh server: http://freessh.org/unix.html -- Gabriel Dain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 27. März 2006 07:37 schrieb ext Gabriel Dain: If you really wanted to telnet to yourself (i dont see any circumstance in which this would be useful), you'd have to set up a telnet/ssh server: http://freessh.org/unix.html Did you actually read the original mail? You don't need a

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 27. März 2006 06:58 schrieb ext THUFIR HAWAT: I want to test that leafnode is up and running, so am using telnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet localhost 119 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Well, it seems leafnote is either _not_ up

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 05:58 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I want to test that leafnode is up and running, so am using telnet: [snip] Why can I not telnet to my own localhost? maybe your services are not listening on lo, and only on eth0? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Arrakis

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet localhost

2006-03-26 Thread Gabriel Dain
Did you actually read the original mail? You don't need a telnet server to make a telnet connection to the NNTP server. No, sorry, I thought the original mail was the one starting with I want to test that leafnode is up and running, so am using telnet: my bad -- Gabriel Dain --