[lug] telnet problems

[Chris M]

>Hello all.  I've got a strange problem I cant even start to figure out...
>
>After installing a new distro (RedHat 6.2) I have found that I am 
>unable to telnet into it.  I noticed that 'inetd' was not installed 
>so I then installed it. ('rpm -i inetd-0.16-4.i386.rpm')  However, 
>after installing 'inetd' I am still having the same problem.  When I 
>try to telnet into the machine I get the error:
>
>'Connection closed by foreign host'


You might get this if the network is truly unreachable.  Have you 
verified that your local firewall is not blocking telnet for some 
strange reason (i.e. does another box allow telnet in/out)?

Chris