I tried that and it doesn't make any difference. ssh, ftp and http all work, but not telnet (even 'telnet localhost' disconnects).
As a last resort, I purged and re-installed telnetd. Now it works. Strange... Bob On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:29:43AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > When I try to telnet into my potato machine, I get a "connected to" > > message followed by "Connection closed by foreign host" and a > > be sure to add the ips/hosts that you are connecting from to > hosts.allow. if they are trusted machines i usually do something like: > > ALL : mydomain.com > > usually i just do ALL : ALL and let ipchains handle host checking. but > this implies you have a firewall. > -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen

