Here's an intriguing question. Symptoms in bullet list:
o Two days ago I installed a RH7.2 system, with
"medium" firewall protection selected
o There was a problem ... couldn't get out to the
net. (DHCP problem.) So I reinstlled with no firewall.
o Still a problem. Turned out to be a bad ethernet card.
Replaced it. Problem solved. Did not reinstall or
tweak firewall.
o Meanwhile I've been using telnet without problems,
because it was never shut off.
o I'm now reviewing a process document that shows how
to enable telent, assuming it's off. I cd to
/etc/xinetd.d and there is *no* file called telnet.
I expected it to be there, but disabled.
o I created it by hand, with telnet enabled.
o Stopped and started xinitd. Now I find:
- telnet localhost gives me Connection refused
- telnet somewhere.onthe.net works
Any guesses why?
Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, Arizona
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