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Re: Connection closed



> 
> When I connect to certain hosts via telnet (similar via ftp), I'll get a messgae like this:
> 
> 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?
> 
> I'd love some hints.
> 
> TIA, Richard
> 

To my knowledge, this is caused by a refusal on the remote end to allow 
connections from random sites.  I've seen the same 'behaviour' when I
set my hosts.deny file to refuse connections to any site but the ones
I specify in either that file, or in hosts.allow.

Taren


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