On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:08:23PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > Debian User wrote: > > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > a quick fix would probably be to comment out all lines in > /etc/hosts.deny,
Adding a line to hosts.allow would be much better! > or comment out the exim line in inetd.conf and restart exim by > /etc/init.d/exim start. i prefer not to run mtas from inetd. playing > with hosts.allow/deny can be risky you can open your system to unwanted > things, You just suggested a way to open a system in this way. Phil