Re: No logins?

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From: Matt Jenkins
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 00:00

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Graham Philip Crowe (gpc01@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au) wrote:
: Mike McBain (mike@calcite.apana.org.au) wrote:
: : Problem:
: 
: : Logging in from the console virtual terminals (Alt-F1, etc) works fine.
: : But logging in from other hosts on the LAN *or* telnetting from
: : the console to the same host results in the message 'Connection refused'.
: Interesting, can you telnet OUT of the machine??? If so then there might be
: a problem with the incoming telnet daemon or the inetd daemon setups. If
: you cannot telnet out then there maybe a problem with forwarding that port
: (maybe firewalled).
: also try ftp, rsh as they use different ports.
: 
: 
: : There is no /etc/nologin, hosts.deny and hosts.allow are the same as for
: : another host on the LAN which does allow logins. What's the problem?
: 
: : This is on Debian 1.3.
: 

Hmm, check to see if telnetd is running?

I had a problem that was similar, except I couldn't ftp, since in.ftpd
hadn't been installed.

Cheers,

Matt
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From: mdj@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au (Matt Jenkins)
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Date: 1997/10/22
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