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Re: can't telnet to localhost
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hossein S. Zadeh)
Thu Dec 3 00:10:53 1998
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:10:20 +1100 (EST)
From: "Hossein S. Zadeh" <hossein@bf.rmit.edu.au>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981202225208.10680A-100000@adam.enteract.com>
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Robert Joseph Wilshe wrote:
> I can't seem to telnet into my RH5.2 box. Whenever I try, it connects to
> the host sucessfully, but then states the connection was closed...
> instantly. From the console, I've tried 'telnet localhost', 'telnet
> 127.0.0.1', 'telnet machinename' ... everything. I've also tried
> telnetting to it from across the net: no luck still. I can ping all the
> above hostnames just fine though. I've looked at inet.conf, and telnet is
> not commented out. Local mail and other processes are working just fine.
Have a look at `/etc/hosts.deny' and `/etc/hosts.allow'. BTW, You are not
trying to login as `root', are you?
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