Re: FTP and telnet SOLVED

[Evan Burkitt <evan@geburkitt.com>]

At 02:34 99.10.23 -0700, aphro wrote:
> check to see if there is anything in /etc/hosts.deny

At 01:18 99.10.23 -0600, Art Lemasters wrote:
>      Look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny.

At 00:24 99.10.23 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> I'd first look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny.

This was it. /etc/hosts.deny is set up by default to deny access to all 
whose names do not match their addresses, likely true for my NT workstation 
which is on a LAN and doesn't have a valid domain name. I have given 
explicit access in /etc/hosts.allow to the few machines I expect to use to 
access the Linux machine and have set /etc/hosts.deny to deny access to 
all. That and the fact that our the Linux machine is on a LAN behind a 
firewall should keep this non-critical learning computer safe from harm.

Thanks to all who replied.

-eb-