[plug] Telnet and FTP

[Bill Kenworthy]

Is the telnet server package (different to the client) installed? 
Mandrake for instance, have been leaving the server out of the standard
installs - stupid coz it catches people out, and in my experiance, most
just go ahead and install it anyway, as they have a use for it, and ssh
is more work and not worth the extra bother on internal networks,
particularly if you have windoze boxes around.

BillK


Kai wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Got yet anther question for you's.
> I run Red Hat 6.2 standard.
> 
> I've edited /etc/hosts.allow, hosts.deny and inetd.conf to allow only
> the protocols and IP addresses I want to have access to my machine.
> 
> What's got me buggered, I can't even telnet from the server back into
> itself !
> telnet 192.168.0.185 gives:
> Trying 192.168.0.185
> Dconnected to 192.168.0.185
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> Trying to telnet to 127.0.0.1 gives the same result.
> 
> FTP will connect but it takes about a minute to get through.
> Anyone have any ideas? do you want to see me hosts.allow, hosts.deny and
> inetd.conf files?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Kai