What's in your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files? I get this behavior when I've blocked a service/host combinatian there.
Regards Christian > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 10:07 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Incoming telnet not working > > > When I try to telnet into my potato machine, I get a "connected to" > message followed by "Connection closed by foreign host" and a > disconnect. /etc/inetd.conf shows: > > telnet stream tcp nowait telnetd.telnetd > /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd > > This looks normal to me. Am I missing something? > > -- > Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
