Re: problem with rexec

Lothar,

Thanks for your reply.

I checked the output using netstat and it does match to 0.0.0.0:*

Infact when i do telnet 192.168.1.2 512, i do get a reply but the
reply is "Where are you?" followed by connection lost.

Saurabh


> On 8/15/06, Lothar Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tuesday 15 August 2006 12:04, [email protected] wrote:
> > > I can also do rlogin/rsh between the two machines using
> > > the private IP addresses (i.e. 1000mbps interfaces). However when i
> > > try to rexec between the private IP addresses, i get an error that
> > > "Where are you?" and connection lost. Why is it that i can do rexec
> > > between the two machines using the 100mbps interfaces with static
> > > public IP addresses but cannot do so using the private IP addresses.
> >
> > An explanation for this is that rlogin/rsh use port 513 while rexec works
> on
> > port 512. It is therefore possible, that rsh/rlogin and rexec work with
> > different configurations.
> >
> > I suppose that your inet-deamon listens on all interfaces for rlogin/rsh,
> > but
> > only on your public 100Mbit interface for rexec.
> > You can check this via
> >
> > netstat -tulpen | grep ":512"
> >
> > This will give you the address range from which your rexecd will accept
> > connections from. If this doesn't match 0.0.0.0:* then you'll have to
> check
> > your rexecds configuration.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Lothar
> >
> >
>