topic Re: Telnet Problem in Operating System - HP-UX

Telnet Problem

Angela Shepherd — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:15:55 GMT

I'm receiveing the following error message when I try to telnet to another server.

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

I recycled inetd and it is still not working. Any suggestions.

Re: Telnet Problem

Sean OB_1 — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:23:34 GMT

On the server you are trying to connect to, make sure that there is an entry in /etc/inetd.conf and also in /etc/services for telnet.

inetd.conf:
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd

services:
telnet 23/tcp # Virtual Terminal Protocol

Then verify that inetd is running.

ps -ef | grep inet

Re: Telnet Problem

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:25:48 GMT

Also check /var/adm/inetd.sec and make sure that you don't have any restrictions for telnet coming into that machine.

Re: Telnet Problem

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:27:16 GMT

Along with the above suggestion, make sure you have the file /usr/lbin/telnetd existing with the permissions r-xr--r-- owned by bin:bin.

-Sri

Re: Telnet Problem

Darrell Allen — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:32:43 GMT

The error message is what you would get if telnet is not allowed by inetd.conf on the remote system. I'd expect "Connection closed by foreign host." if you were being denied by inetd.sec.

Can you rlogin into the remote server? ssh? If yes, do so and then telnet from the remote server to itself. See if you get the same message.

You can use "inetd -c" to cause inetd to re-initialize itself.

Darrell

Re: Telnet Problem

Angela Shepherd — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:32:02 GMT

Thank you very much. Please close this issue.