Telnet problem .. Local flow control off ??

[someone_4]

I am having a telnet problem.
When I try to telnet into one of my servers.
Here is what happends.
Trying...
Connected to possvr.
Escape character is '^]'.
Local flow control off
Connection closed by foreign host.
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What does this mean and how do I fix it ??
thanks..

Richard

[Abel Berger]

Hi Richard,

by IP Adress you can ping ???

Abel Berger

[someone_4]

Hello ,
Yes I can ping by IP addy

[Kandaswamy Natarajan · Accepted solution]

make sure your /var/adm/inetd.sec file allows telnet access to everyone.
if this is true
then check for errors in syslogs and console for ptys/strptys.
if you find them then increase the pty nos thru sam, this is a kernel parameter that can be increased to provide more telnet access.

[someone_4]

Why would that change ??
It was working fine yesterday..

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Richard,

The above posting may be correct because there may be more connections at the moment or it may be something as simple as a full filesystem.

Clay

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi again,

Make sure that inetd is running as well.

[Don Dawson]

I'm actually haven't the same problem on two of my machines. I haven't figured out the answer to the problem yet either. I can still rlogin but telnet doesn't work.

[Joseph C. Denman]

If you are running tcpwrapper, make sure you have an entry in the hosts.allow file for the host you are connecting from.

...jcd...