Re: Telnet to open ports


Subject: Re: Telnet to open ports
From: Darron Froese (darron@froese.org)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2001 - 18:07:57 MDT


What you're asking to do is impossible.

Servers cannot tell between a normal connection and a telnet connection.

--
Darron
darron@froese.org

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Watson" <bcwatso1@uiuc.edu> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 2:07 PM Subject: Re: Telnet to open ports

> I'm still having trouble trying to restrict access. I don't have > telnet installed, but it is still possible for people to use telnet > to access my smtp, pop3, and web servers. Whenever I try to set it > to go through tcpwrappers, the service doesn't startup when I restart > xinetd. How would I go about setting this up correctly? I don't > want people to get in with telnet at all on any service port.



This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Sat Sep 29 2001 - 17:17:45 MDT