Help with proftpd/inetd

Hey Everyone,

I recently installed proftpd onto my system. I am having probles getting
it to work through inetd. I have the following line in my inetd.conf file:

ftp     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/proftpd

and then added the following line to my hosts.allow file:

ftp: LOCAL

When I try to log in, ftp localhost, I get the following:

421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

and this appears in /var/log/messages:

topeka proftpd[16675]: refused connect from catchen@127.0.0.1

When I change the hosts.allow file to ALL: ALL it works. Does anyone know
why this isn't?

Thanks,

julian