1. check ur firewall (iptables)
2. check ur /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny file
3. are u sure that ur telnet server is located in /usr/sbin/telnet or
this is a client?

vineet

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 16:28, surinder makkar wrote:
> Hi List,
> I have installed mandrake 8.2 on my machine and xinetd
> service is running fine. In the xinetd.d there was no
> telnet file but a file called telnet.rpmnew. I myself
> copied it under the name telnet and disable was = no
> in that file. Somehow I am not able to telnet on the
> linux box as whenever I try to telnet it gives the
> error :--
> 
> Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> 
> However I am able to ftp onto the server
> 
> When I give chkconfig --list command it gives the
> following output.
> 
> ---------
> -------
> xinetd based services
>        chargen-udp : off
>        ---------
>        ---------
>        telnet : on
> 
> However when I give the command /usr/sbin/telnet it
> gives the error:--
> 
> getpeername: socket operation on non-socket
> 
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