Telnet Problem

[Angela Shepherd]

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.

[Sean OB_1 · Accepted solution]

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

[Patrick Wallek]

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

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

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

[Darrell Allen]

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

[Angela Shepherd]

Thank you very much. Please close this issue.