Subject: Re: Telneting trouble
From: mike cullerton (yellowdog@cullerton.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 12:12:51 MST
--On Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:49 AM -0600 Robert Brandtjen
<rob@prometheusmedia.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 March 2002 11:36 am, mike cullerton wrote:
>> i believe we were referring to the telnet client and you are referring to
>> the telnet daemon.
>>
>> yes/no?
> yes and no-
>
> My telnet daemon is off, and as a result of that, I cannot telnet to
> localhost :
> [root@ns1 root]# telnet 127.0.0.1
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
he wasn't telnet'ing to the telnet daemon, he was telnet'ing to the
sendmail deamon
telnet localhost 25
this means connect to port 25 on localhost
>
> if the firewall is configured to close off access, it wont connect then
> either.
i don't know about this. i run my firewalls on routers and run (x)inetd on
the servers themselves. it surprises me that a local firewall would
intercept traffic within the kernel though.
but then again, i'm a network guy and i run my firewalls on routers :)
-- mike cullerton yellowdog at cullerton dot com
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