Richard Sevenich wrote: > Connected to site.whatever.edu > Escape character is '^]'. > > which is as usual > > then followed by: > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > Assume for the moment that it is not an ISP problem, is there anything > specific to my machine that is causing this?
Probably not. This is what you typically see when a computer is configured via /etc/hosts.deny to not let you telnet to it. It's possible they hve something in particular against you, but it's more likely they just operate on a policy of only enabling incoming telnet from machines that they trust. -- see shy jo
