On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Franco J.Miao wrote:

7.1 hosts. The problem is that this new 7.1 machine is not allowing any other machine to telnet, ftp, or ypserv to it. I've enabled telnet and ftp on this new machine by modifying /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and /etc/xinetd.d/tftp, restarted xinetd. But when I try to telnet into it from another machine, I get a connection refused error. I've even set /etc/hosts.allow on this machine to ALL: ALL. It

Check your firewall rules set in /etc/sysconfig/ipchains. By default, incoming connections are disabled by the firewall.

You should consider joining your local linux users group. If you are in Bombay, that would be ilug-bom. Send a mail to linuxers-request@mm.ilug-bom.org.in with subscribe in the subject line. If not, then check for you local lug.

Philip