On 01/30/2013 02:42 PM, David G. Miller wrote: > Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko <at> greshko.com> writes: > >> On 01/29/2013 10:19 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:46:58AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > <SNIP> >>>> Has anyone configured telnetd for use on F18? > <SNIP> >>> I just did, and I didn't add -D, but I did change "disabled = yes" to "no" >>> in the telnet xinetd config. And it just worked. >> Thanks for testing. >> >> That is what I did too.... And it fails as described. I'm stumped. >> > Seeing the same problem here that Ed saw. I am seeing one interesting twist > that Ed didn't mention. If I start the telnet server on my F18 box with > something like "server_args = -D report", I can login locally. If I try to log > in from a different box, I get a "no route to host" message which is bogus since > I can ping the F18 system or ssh to it. I messed with hosts.allow and > hosts.deny but didn't see any change. I don't see that. And, since you said iptables is stopped (I also tested that way), it is completely bogus. > > Maybe the problem isn't in telnetd but in tcp wrappers instead. A possibility. Not as easy to verify..... > > -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org