make sure the silly redhat firewall allows telnet connections...this is usually configured at installation time. maybe try /etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains stop (or iptables, but i'm sure the redhat firewall uses ipchains by default) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Upendra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 4:19 PM Subject: [SLUG] I am having TELNET problem in RedHat Linux 7.2
> Dear friends, > I have two DELL machines both running RedHat Linux 7.2 connected to each > other by a crossover cable. I can ping one from the other other without any > problem. > But I can not telnet to the telnet server from either one. I modified the > file in /etc/xinet.d/telnet where disalbe=no and I restarted > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd ..but I am still not able to telnet. From the > machine itself, I can telnet to itself, but from other machine, it says > connection refused. > > any help would be appreciated. > Thanks > Upendra > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
