Hi Ajith I imagine that you can use terminal sessions on the machine itself.
You need to be using ssh which is much more secure than telnet. Telnet sends all traffic as clear text and is thus open for others to sniff your traffic and break in. This is probably why your distro has disabled it. Mandrake does by default. Red Hat didn't used to but I imagine that's fixed now.. To run ssh you need sshd running on the server and an ssh client on your other machine. There is a great windows one which is free called PuTTY. Use google to find it. Otherwise of course, most linux distros have both client and server included for free. HTH Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi! ya, > >I have a Linux question. >I am running > >Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 16:46:36 EDT 2001 i686 > >I have a peculiar problem: > >My machine does not allow any type of connection telnet. > >I can't even connect to localhost(127.0.0.1) > >Never mind connections comming outside. > >It is connected over ADSL. > >But I can ftp any site outside my box. > >It's just my box does not allow any connections. > >This is some security issue. >but I have disabled all firewall rules. >Have you encountered this? > >This prevents me testing my nameserver that I am trying to run on it. > >Any help is appreciated , I am on a tight schedule here. > >thanks, >--ajith > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
