[NCLUG] help, network connections

[M Butcher]

Would probably be xinetd.conf, then.

On Friday 11 May 2001 02:40 pm, you wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> >are those ports open in /etc/inetd.conf?
>
> There is no /etc/inetd.conf. This is RedHat 7.1, if that helps.
>
> John wrote:
> >Make sure you actually have the servers installed and running.
> >
> >if a RedHat derivative:
> >	#  rpm -q -a | egrep "ftpd|telnet"
> >	telnet-0.10-31
> >	wu-ftpd-2.6.0-14.6x
>
> Telnet is there but ftpd is not. So I added ftpd and rpm complained
> about xinetd being needed so I also added that to my new machine.
>
> >In later versions with xinetd:
> >
> >	[root at bass /root]# chkconfig --list
> >	xinetd based services:
> >		telnet:		on
> >		wu-ftpd:	on
>
> I turned on wu-ftpd but there's no entry for telnet. Does this mean I
> can't telnet to this machine? But I should be able to ftp to it? In
> any case, I can't do either.
>
> Sean wrote:
> >What happens when you telnet or FTP?  Are you getting the "Connected"
> >message and it's hanging (a DNS problem), or are you getting "Connection
> >refused" (meaning the server isn't running), or are you getting absolutely
>
> I get "connection refused". I'm using ip numbers just to skip any dns
> problem. So how do I tell if the servers are up?
>
> One other thing I tried was just starting xclock with the display
> redirected to the other machine. After doing xhost + I can do this
> from a remote machine to my old machine (when it's connected to the
> cable modem) but not from my new machine to the old one. I don't know
> if this has something to do with how I have to start X when I'm not
> connected to my cable modem. For some odd reason I have to shut down
> eth0 before I can bring up X when I just have my two machine connected
> together.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Matt
>
>
>
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