Re: telnet ...Connection refused

[Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de>]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:08:23PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: 

> Debian User wrote:
> 
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> a quick fix would probably be to comment out all lines in
> /etc/hosts.deny,

Adding a line to hosts.allow would be much better!

> or comment out the exim line in inetd.conf and restart exim by
> /etc/init.d/exim start. i prefer not to run mtas from inetd. playing
> with hosts.allow/deny can be risky you can open your system to unwanted
> things, 

You just suggested a way to open a system in this way.
Phil