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RE: more: telnet not working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Main)
Sat Aug 19 14:46:33 1995
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 04:53:11 -0300
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: pmain@interoz.com (Patrick Main)
OK guys i thought i would start fresh. Recently i had the following
happen on our colleges's web server running Linux 1.2.8 it only has
8 megs but that's all the college would cough up.
I have been telnetting in to do admin work and features <add/change>.
suddenly last night i got the dreaded connection closed by foreign host.
Got this on everything i tried and i was telnetting in from a Linux
machine through a PPP connection. Test telnets to other machines were
fine. After investigating by telnetting to different ports, it became
obvious that services that were running in standalone were not effected.
ie: i could telnet and use smtp and also http and gopher too. these all
run by themselves and not through inetd. anything that depends on inetd
would result in a connection closed by foreign host message. bottom line
is that telnet and ftp were broen but it seems that inetd was not
accepting any connections properly. i would get the connection established
and then the connection woud be slammed closed! Any comments. If inetd
had died would i not even get a connection at all? weird!
Now for some more weirdness. Before i coud get physically to the machine
the problem fixed itself! I thought at first that someone had rebooted
but this is not the case. No change has been made in the beginning up-times.
just seems that this is related to the thread going on.
Patric Main pmain@interoz.com and root@www.gc.cc.fl.us
