telnet error -- local flow control off

[CIS BDLM Ms KAREH]

When I telnet to a remote machine I get the following messages:

Trying ....
Connected to
Escape character is '^]'
Local flow control off
Connection closed by foreign host.

I would appreciate any ideas that you might have.

Thank you.

[Alex Glennie]

see http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xa715cbaac6dcd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Telnet ,messages like

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
Connection closed by foreign host.

Indicate that the network connection could not be completed.

It may be due to one of these reasons :

1. inted process died , not responding and needs restart or hangup(-HUP)
2. The firewall type settings have been changed to disable the telnet port.
3. telnet is commented out in inted.conf file - .
4. You have an IP address problem

Steve Steel

[Ross Zubritski]

On the remote machine. ps -ef | grep inetd. Is there an inetd process running?

Regards,

RZ

[CIS BDLM Ms KAREH]

I am able to telnet out of the machine and I can rlogin to the machine.

I also did the following:

rm /dev/pts/t*
rm /dev/pty/t*
cd /dev
insf -e
insf -d telm
insf -d tells

But all this did not help.

[Steve Steel]

Hi


What happens if you rlogin to the problem machine and then try to telnet to it.

Do not do telnet machine but

1)telnet localhost

If works

2)telnet ip_address

if works then

3)telnet name

If not working then

4)telnet
open name

What happens


Steve Steel

[Steve Steel]

Hi

What are your telnet and login patches on this box.

If latest then reinstall else upgrade.


There may be a corruption in part of telnet.


Steve Steel

[CIS BDLM Ms KAREH]

telnet to localhost works.
telnet to the machine's ip-address doesn't work.
telnet to other machines works.