Re: Telnet

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:49:19AM -0600, [email protected] wrote:

> I am running Linux version 7 on a Dell Precision 620. Our service support
> group can ping our machine but cannot Telnet to it. Telnet services is
> running on our machine. Does anyone know why telnet doesn't work. It is
> possible that their is some type of TCP wrapper, or something similar.

How did you check that telnet is running? ps? netstat? If it *is* running you
will see it listening on port 23.

Assuming it is running, then check that (a) you don't have the remote host
in /etc/hosts.deny and (b) that you are not running a firewall locally (use
/etc/init.d/ipchains status to see and if it is running use /sbin/ipchains -L
to check if you're filtering port 23).

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