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Date:      Fri, 5 Sep 1997 21:51:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Richard J. Finn" <rfinn@Houston-InterWeb.COM>
Cc:        support@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can't telnet in
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905215045.7395L-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <340DD92B.93979388@Houston-InterWeb.COM>

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On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Richard J. Finn wrote:

> One of my servers is running FreeBSD 2.2.1.  When my assistant rebooted it the
> other day we could no longet telnet in... we can only ssh in or use xdm.  I
> checked and the telnet service and port is defined in the /etc/services file. 
> telnetd isn't running and when I try to load it manually I get this error:
> /usr/libexec/telnetd: getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket
> 
> 	Any ideas?

Is inetd running?  Telnetd is spawned off by inetd when it receives a
connection.  

You don't have ipfw running on this box, do you?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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