Re: xinetd refuse connect
On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 12:16, Brian P. Flaherty wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to run an rsync server from xinetd. I have a desktop
> connected via eth0 to a DSL line and eth1 connected to a little hub.
> My laptop is on the hub too. When I start the rsync server from the
> prompt, I can access it from my laptop just fine (on the internal
> network). But, when I run it from xinetd, I get this message in my
> daemon.log:
>
> Nov 10 14:48:25 localhost xinetd[2468]: warning: can't get client
> address: Invalid argument
> Nov 10 14:48:25 localhost xinetd[2468]: refused connect from <no address>
>
> This message appears 10 times and then rsyncd is "deactivated because
> of looping." In what form or from where is xinetd asking for
> identification and what is my laptop failing to provide? I thought it
> might be related to ident, but all those services are running on my
> laptop. I checked the xinetd docs and webpage, but did not see
> anything related. When searching google groups, someone had a similar
> problem with linuxconf running from xinetd, but there were no
> solutions posted. Thanks for any suggestions.
Have you looked in your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny for
possible rejections (most likely a PARANOID directive is stopping your
connection)? Does /var/log/messages (or syslog) have anything to say
about this?
--mike
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