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Ronald J Marchand

2005-08-24, 8:46 pm

I ran the setup program from the command line and turned on Telnet. After
rebooting the system, I am getting connection refused.

Fedora Core 4

What did I miss???

Is there somewhere else to post FC4 questions?

TIA
Ron


Daffy D.

2005-08-25, 2:47 am

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:02:34 -0500, "Ronald J Marchand"
<ron@rojomar.com> wrote:

>I ran the setup program from the command line and turned on Telnet. After
>rebooting the system, I am getting connection refused.
>
>Fedora Core 4
>
>What did I miss???
>
>Is there somewhere else to post FC4 questions?
>
>TIA
>Ron
>


Hi,

Most likely the firewall or SELinux settings.

HTH
D.
Ivan Marsh

2005-08-25, 5:57 pm

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:39:52 +0200, Daffy D. wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:02:34 -0500, "Ronald J Marchand"
> <ron@rojomar.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Most likely the firewall or SELinux settings.


If it's the firewall the client should hang, then timeout. "Connection
Refused" is a response from the server.

The service probably isn't running. This could, as stated above, be caused
by the SELinux setup or a telnet configuration issue.

The other prerequisite response to a telnet server question: If the server
in question is going to be connected to the internet your server will have
about twenty minutes of uptime before it's cracked and zombified or
killed. Telnet is very insecure.

If it's going to be connected to the internet you should use ssh instead
of telnet.

--
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Benjamin Franklin (I didn't know he was a Buddhist)

Paul Kairis

2005-08-25, 5:57 pm

As am FYI, you dont need to reboot. Just restart xinetd.

HTH

Ronald J Marchand wrote:
>
> I ran the setup program from the command line and turned on Telnet. After
> rebooting the system, I am getting connection refused.
>
> Fedora Core 4
>
> What did I miss???
>
> Is there somewhere else to post FC4 questions?
>
> TIA
> Ron

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