[plug] Telnet and FTP

[Simon Scott (SSC)]

Somebody tell me if Im wrong below please :)

1) More than likely you havent installed telnetd
2) Youve stuffed up your hosts.allow/deny config (if it worked before and
now it doesnt)
3) I think it is inetd that uses hosts.allow/deny, so if you dont have the
telnet server setup in /etc/inetd.conf (???) but you do have telnetd
installed, it still wont work I think. Somebody correct me if Im wrong....

Anyway, just install ssh and be done with it :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Furey [mailto:simpware at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 9:20 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Telnet and FTP


> What's got me buggered, I can't even telnet from the
> server back into itself !

Yay, one I can help with!

Short answer: you haven't installed the
"telnet-server" rpm. I had this problem myself, took
me a few weeks to work it out :)

> FTP will connect but it takes about a minute to get
> through.

I can't really help here, I have it too. I did some
research and saw mention of some kind of reverse
lookup (similar to DNS, but something else) which the
ftp daemon normally does, but RedHat took out. Or
something like that.

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