On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:18, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 12 December 2002 13:53, John Nall wrote: > > Right now, I have telnet installed. I can start the daemons. I have two > > machines on an LAN, both running 8.0, and I can ping from one to the other > > and from the other to the one. I have my firewall set properly to allow > > them to talk to each other (or at least I think I do). But when I do a > > "telnet main" it says connection refused. I can "ping main" and all is > > fine, so I know the Ethernet connection is working. What am I doing wrong? > > (He asked, in a whining tone.) > > A) is there any reason why you are using telnet instead of ssh? > > B) can you telnet to yourself from one of the boxen? From main, can you > telnet main? > > C) You opened port 22 TCP on both machines? > > D) chkconfig --list shows that telnet service is on? (yes chkconfig shows > xinetd services). > > E) See A) ---- I would swear that port 22 was for ssh & 23 was for telnet Another thing I would check is to make sure that if /etc/hosts.deny is set to ALL:ALL or something similar...that /etc/hosts.allow would have something like telnet: LOCAL, 192.168.1. Craig -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list