From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 5:48:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smithers.stomped.com (smithers.stomped.com [216.17.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D03537B401 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 05:48:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malhavoc@stomped.com) Received: (qmail 19106 invoked by uid 1041); 26 Jun 2001 12:48:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Jun 2001 12:48:30 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:48:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Nugent To: IRCD IRCD Cc: Subject: Re: help! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In order for someone to be able to telnet into your machine (you should be using SSH anyway, but what the heck), you need to have the telnet daemon running so people can connect to it. Check /etc/inetd.conf to make sure the line starting with "telnet" isn't commented out (there isn't a # in front of it). If there is, remove the comment, save the file, and restart inetd: killall -HUP inetd (as root) Also, some ISPs (like mine) block certain ports in an attempt to "protect" their users. If all else fails, you might want to make an inquiry to see if port 23 is being blocked to your machine. HTH, Jason On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 at 7:43am, IRCD IRCD thought about > Hi there, > > The problem i am facing is as follows: > > I have successfully setup my FreeBSD operating system, and have also manage to setup my internet connection > through the PPP. However, now i would like to enable other computer users to telnet into my computer. But when > i try to allow my friend to telnet into my IP address, they can't seem to make a connection with my computer > (when its online the internet). > > So is it just sufficient to just type "telnet " to enter my computer, or are there other > necessarry parameters i would need or configurations i need to make. > > Thank in advance for your help, and its much appreciated for any suggestions offered. > > _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the > message > ---------------------- Jason Nugent Aka MalHavoc Server Programmer and Administrator S T O M P E D . C O M For PGP public key: http://malhavoc.stomped.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message