Edward,
That will most likely be because you have denied telnet (or (preferable)
everything) in hosts.deny and this way you explicitly allow what you
believe should be allowed in your system.
Regards
Gustav
Edward Dekkers wrote:
>
> > upgraded to Red hat 6.1 and telnet is not working. Has anybody seen this.
> > Everything seems to be fine in inetd.conf
> > Thanks,
> > Meghan
>
> HHmm.
>
> I just had a look at my /etc/hosts.allow and I have the following which may
> be useful:
>
> For every machine on my local sub-net that I want to be able to telnet to my
> Linux box I have:
>
> telnet: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> where, obviously, the x's represent the ip address of the client wanting to
> telnet in.
>
> Don't know whether it's necessary, but I'm sure I put them in for a reason a
> year ago.
>
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