Problems trying to telnet to HP-UX 11.11

[BenKennedy]

I have an old rp5470 box that has been sitting on a shelf for a few years.  

I decided I'd like to try and use it as an Ignite-UX server, however I'm having some problems being able to telnet.  

I was able to connect via a console cable and redid the networking and I'm able to ping it, but when I try and telnet I get a connection refused message.

Are there any general things that can cause this? Maybe a service not running or something.  I'm not too familiar with HP-UX, so thanks for any help

-Ben

[Dennis Handly]

Have you looked at /etc/inetd.conf and inetd(1m) to see if telnet is listed?

[BenKennedy]

Thanks for the quick response.  It turned out to be quite a dumb issue.

After checking inetd.conf and saw telnet listed, I ran a netstat -an command to see if port 23 was listening, which it was.

For grins, I tried unplugging the network cables and was still able to ping the ip address.  It turned out someone else was trying to use the same previously unused ip_address at the same time.

I used set_parms ip_address to change the address to something else that was indeed unused and was able to connect just fine.