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Re: Connection closed



Richard Sevenich wrote:
> Connected to site.whatever.edu
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> which is as usual
> 
> then followed by:
> 
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> Assume for the moment that it is not an ISP problem, is there anything
> specific to my machine that is causing this?

Probably not. This is what you typically see when a computer is configured
via /etc/hosts.deny to not let you telnet to it. It's possible they hve
something in particular against you, but it's more likely they just operate
on a policy of only enabling incoming telnet from machines that they trust.

-- 
see shy jo


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