[lug] telnet problems
Chris M
chrism at peakpeak.com
Mon May 22 17:59:48 MDT 2000
>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
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