topic Connection refused in Operating System - HP-UX

Connection refused

Faizer Jameel — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:21:46 GMT

Dear All
When I telnet to my hp ux box [ hpux11.11] I get teh following message. I need ur assistance to solve.

Could not open connection to the host, on port 23:connection refused

Thanks

Re: Connection refused

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:29:28 GMT

Hi:

You may not have 'telnet' enabled. Examine your '/etc/inetd.conf' file. You need a line like:

telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd

Either uncomment the line or add it and do:

# inetd -c

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Connection refused

Ralph Grothe — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:11:29 GMT

There is no service listening at port 23/tcp.
Do what James suggested, and check

$ netstat -an|awk '{if(a[split($4,a,".")]==23){print}}'
tcp 0 0 *.23 *.* LISTEN