THere is a way to determine for absolute certain whether you are looking at a host.allow problem or not. Run telnetd without the TCP wrapper "tcpd". This is what you said you had in inted.conf:
telnet stream tcp nowait telnetd.telnetd /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd Now take out the tcpd part, and try this: telnet stream tcp nowait telnetd.telnetd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd Now see if you can telnet in. If you still cannot, then you have ruled out TCP wrapper problems as the cause (which means it's not host.allow or host.deny). If you can now telnet in, then you know that this is the problem. --Greg
