thanks guys for all the help I had received, I think what Craig said makes sense, I am in private network, and I presumes that is the case..., right now I am in the office so I can't check my box at home, I will do it the first thing I get home..., thanks craig good on ya and have a good day..
kusuma Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote: > > > I can not telnet or ftp to localhost, it says that service is not > > started, but I can see them in /etc/service, can some body tell me > > where should I check for this error? > > there are several possible causes for this: > > 1. check the log files in /var/log (especially daemon.log) - the > problem may be obvious from the logs. > > 2. is inetd running? if not, why not? fix it. > > 3. check to see if you have an entry for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, > or that your name server is resolving lookups for localhost, > localhost.your.domain, and 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. > > if lookups on these names fail, then tcp wrappers PARANOIA setting is > probably refusing connections to this "unknown" host 127.0.0.1 > > if this is the case, you can fix it by either: > > 1. fixing your nameserver to do localhost lookups properly > 2. adding "127.0.0.1 localhost" to your /etc/hosts file > 3. adding "ALL: 127.0.0.1" to your /etc/hosts.allow file. > > if that doesn't help, check your routing table. you should have a host > route for host 127.0.0.0 or a network route for network 127.0.0 via the > lo interface. > > like this: > > $ route -n | grep "^127" > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 143 lo > > > Further more I can not even ftp or http to my box from the net, even > > thou my apache and wuftpd is up and running.., it says something like > > connection closed by my server. > > > > but I can do every outbound connection like ftp, telnet to the others > > from my box, right now running kernel 2.0.32... > > this could be caused by inetd or tcp wrappers problems as mentioned above. > > alternatively, it could be because your machine is on a private network > (eg 10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x, 192.168.x.x) and is therefore unreachable from > the internet. if you use some sort of Network Address Translation (NAT) or > IP Masquerading to get out to the net then this is the case. > > craig > > -- > craig sanders -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
