Re: telnet to localhost
thanks guys for all the help I had received, I think what Craig said
makes sense, I am in private network, and I presumes that is the
case..., right now I am in the office so I can't check my box at home, I
will do it the first thing I get home..., thanks craig good on ya and
have a good day..
kusuma
Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Wiria A Kusuma wrote:
>
> > I can not telnet or ftp to localhost, it says that service is not
> > started, but I can see them in /etc/service, can some body tell me
> > where should I check for this error?
>
> there are several possible causes for this:
>
> 1. check the log files in /var/log (especially daemon.log) - the
> problem may be obvious from the logs.
>
> 2. is inetd running? if not, why not? fix it.
>
> 3. check to see if you have an entry for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts,
> or that your name server is resolving lookups for localhost,
> localhost.your.domain, and 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.
>
> if lookups on these names fail, then tcp wrappers PARANOIA setting is
> probably refusing connections to this "unknown" host 127.0.0.1
>
> if this is the case, you can fix it by either:
>
> 1. fixing your nameserver to do localhost lookups properly
> 2. adding "127.0.0.1 localhost" to your /etc/hosts file
> 3. adding "ALL: 127.0.0.1" to your /etc/hosts.allow file.
>
> if that doesn't help, check your routing table. you should have a host
> route for host 127.0.0.0 or a network route for network 127.0.0 via the
> lo interface.
>
> like this:
>
> $ route -n | grep "^127"
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 143 lo
>
> > Further more I can not even ftp or http to my box from the net, even
> > thou my apache and wuftpd is up and running.., it says something like
> > connection closed by my server.
> >
> > but I can do every outbound connection like ftp, telnet to the others
> > from my box, right now running kernel 2.0.32...
>
> this could be caused by inetd or tcp wrappers problems as mentioned above.
>
> alternatively, it could be because your machine is on a private network
> (eg 10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x, 192.168.x.x) and is therefore unreachable from
> the internet. if you use some sort of Network Address Translation (NAT) or
> IP Masquerading to get out to the net then this is the case.
>
> craig
>
> --
> craig sanders
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