no telnet localhost, ok elsewhere

On Friday 22 March 2002 01:06 pm, you wrote:
> Here's an intriguing question. Symptoms in bullet list:

<snip>

> 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

Can we see the telnet file you created?

Dan