telnet/ftp won't run

[John Henrikson]

Hello, I just installed 11.i (TCE) on a visualize workstation, everything went smoothly, no errors on reboot, it APPEARS that everything starts ok, but telnet and ftp won't start. When I try to start a telnet session I get the message 'telnet unknown tcp/ip service'.. I've checked the netconf file, the security file and all all looks well so I'm stumped. I can ping the machine and it mounts NFS drives and connects to the NIS master server for the domain. Any advice would be appreciated!! thanks!@

[Alex Glennie]

First place I'd check is your /etc/services file and ensure both ftp and telnet have entries here ?

compare if you can vs working system or I suspect the man pages detail the ports they use etc 21 & 23 I think

[John Henrikson]

yes they both have entries in the /etc/services file..
how would I check the ports?
thanks!

[Alex Glennie]

telnet

use quit to exit

[John Henrikson]

Ah, I get the unknown service message when I try to telnet out and connection refused when I try to telent in.. telnetd is not running and wont run even when I restart inet.d

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

I think this must be a nis problem .... try ypcat services and check it's in the masters map ?

[John Henrikson]

YES it was an NIS problem, I removed NIS and rebooted, services came up. So I redid my nis configuration and now things seem to be ok,.. thanks alot for the help!

[Thomas Martin_2]

Dear John,

I have exactly the same problem (telnet/ftp not working) and I can "fix" it by removing NIS. Once I re-configure NIS, I get the well known error again. How did you configure your NIS to get everything working ? - By the way, I am using 10.20 on a 735/125. I would appreciate any hint and thank you very much in advance!

Greetings
Thomas