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Re: inetd problems, I think

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Dec 2 19:33:12 1998

Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 19:21:57 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Flint Doungchak wrote:

> I have a machine running Redhat 5.1 and until recently it's been running
> flawlessly.
>
> A couple of days ago, I suddenly wasn't able to use telnet, ftp, or pop
> from any machine on the local network.
>
> I currently masq my IP to several machines on the network using dhcpd to
> assign the 192.168.1.x address to the internal machines.
>
> The catch is that I have complete IP services to all those machines,
> internally, (ie they all can access the web via a browser) and they all
> get their IPs as they should. The other weird thing is that if I telnet
> out to another server outside our domain, and then telnet back in to our
> server, I can login just fine whereas telneting directly from an internal
> machine results in an immediate remote disconnect. Almost like inetd is
> denying to those IPs.

Could someone have made changes on your machine without your
knowing it?  Have you taken measures to keep out the internet vandals?

Try checking everything against your original rpms.

rpm -qa | while read pkg
do
echo ======== $pkg
rpm -Vp /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/$pkg*
done >/tmp/differences 2>&1

--

Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com   Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2




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