[Ilugc] Unable to telnet port 25 on local machine
- From: mallet@xxxxxxx (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:40:19 +0530
On Monday, December 30, 2002 1:26 PM [GMT+0530=IST],
smohan@xxxxxxxx (S Mohan) wrote:
telnet is invoked by xinetd. Access to this is governed by a file
telnet in /etc/xinetd directory where in disabled would be marked
yes. Change it to no. If this still does not work, check the
hosts.allow and hosts.deny file in /etc where IP masks may have been
denied.
The issue is not that he is unable to telnet (aka port 23) - where your
advice would be correct.
The issue is that he can do (forget the word telnet, as it seems to
confuse the issue, try, say, netcat) -
$ nc localhost 25
but not
$ nc his.host.name 25
or
$ nc his.public.ip 25
srs
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