[plug] Debian: no telnet access after stable -> testing upgrade

[Andrew Howell]

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:23:18PM +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
> Thanks to Michael and Andrew...
> 
> Michael's point about open-ssh is a good one and I will in fact travel that 
> pathway shortly.  I was attempting to get it to work in a plain-ish vanilla 
> environment first.
> 
> Andrew... I have done the apt-get and inetd reload as you suggested, 
> thanks, but the telnet session aborts before any signon messages appear in 
> the telnet client screen.  I have seen that sort of behaviour before, when 
> the forward and reverse dns info is incorrect so I will follow up on that 
> aspect.  During the apt-get installation it removed the heimdal-servers, 
> presumably because of a conflict with login.  Oh, "login" was the claimed 
> latest version.
> 
> It may not be dns-related however, since attempting to telnet to itself 
> from within an xterm window is also unsuccessful.  Telnetting to the dns 
> name, the actual IP address or localhost in this manner simply returns 
> "Escape character is blahblah" followed shortly thereafter by "Connection 
> closed by foreign host".
> 
> Thankfully this is not a mission critical machine or situation so I can 
> treat it as a good learning exercise :-)  A pointer to a good "read" would 
> be appreciated.  I'll try the telnet-HOWTO if there is such a thing.

Anything logged in the /var/log/daemon.log or auth.log logs?

Andrew

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