[plug] telnet on Mandrake

[Kenworthy Family]

They (hosts.allow/deny) were set to the default blank - first place I looked.
Also set up hosts.allow on the offchance but that failed as well.  Also telnet
itself is OK, can telnet to another box ok, anyone else with Mandrake have this
problem?  Cannot find any hints in the documents etc and have wasted a few hours
searching but no luck so far and cannot remember it being mentioned anywhere on
lists etc.

BillK

Christian wrote:

> 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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