[plug] telnet on Mandrake

[Christian]

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Kenworthy Family wrote:

> Hi all,
>     I have just (well third time in three days) installed Mandrake 6.1
> and have not killed it this time around.  I have a problem in not being
> able to telnet into the box, either from another machine or using
> localhost or the machine name to itself.  ftp works fine which
> eliminates a lot of things - did it on each install, and last time tried
> before I did anything else so looks like something set up in Mandrake.
> Telnet connects then approx 10 seconds later disconnects - "remote host
> closed connection" or similar.  Any ideas where to look as I cannot find
> where such a restriction is set.

It could be tcpwrappers: check /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny.  If
Mandrake are setting this up by default then they should be congratulated
for it -- it's about time someone shipped a mainstream Linux distribution
in something that vaguely resembles a secure configuration.

Regards,

Christian.

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