Telnet : one way street !!!

[nusjunkie]

Hi all...
I installed Red Hat 7.2 on one of my company's comp.
I can telnet to other machines but none of the other machines can telnet into my comp.
I installed ALL the packages on the comp.

Thanx

[Spot]

You most likely have a firewall blocking access to the machine or the telnet daemon isn't running. You should be able to tell if it's running with the command ps -ax |grep telnet - if the telnet deamon shows up, you'll know it's actually running.
Since you installed "ALL the packages", I can't tell you what to look for as far as firewalls go - you'll need to look for yourself.
After that, please see my reply here:
http://www.getlinuxonline.com/yabbse...d=1074;start=0

[JimH]

To you have the telnet server installed? Is it enabled? Are you blocking connections in /etc/hosts.deny?

Red Hat disables telnet by default. Look in /etc/xinetd.d. Look at the telnet file, make sure it has "disable=no". Restart xinetd: service xinetd restart

Jim H