Ok I suspect that you are droping the returning packets from the server you are trying to telnet to, I.E the telnet packet goes out but the reply packet is being dropped. Try setting the input policy to accept for 30 secs and see if it works, if so then set it back to drop and add
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT To your fireall. Alternatively with a policy of drop for outbound packets you might be dropping the outbound telnet packet. I haven't trawled through them trying to match rules to your destination host. If the above doesn't work, try changing the outbound policy for 30 secs and see if that fixes it, then add the appropriate rule. HTH Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
