From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 18:36:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com (cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com [24.142.61.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262E114C2B for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:36:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg@netbox.com) Received: from localhost (jwg@localhost) by cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24173; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg@netbox.com) X-Authentication-Warning: cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com: jwg owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:37:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Gray X-Sender: jwg@cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com To: Chris Singer Cc: BSD Help Subject: Re: Telnet not working? In-Reply-To: <000501beb84f$267b8930$0ea78e8b@maverick.workfire.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris, Are you running tcp_wrappers? What is in /etc/hosts.allow? The most common cause that I have seen in lack of reverse dns lookup. It may be that when they were on the same hub the reverse dns lookup worked. Try putting the following line in /usr/local/etc/hosts.allow telnetd : 24.xxx.xxx.xxx : allow Jeff On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Chris Singer wrote: > Real-To: "Chris Singer" > > Does anyone have any idea of why I can nolonger telnet into my machines? I > have 2 FreeBSD 2.2.8 boxes. The were sitting right next to me running > through a 4 port hub and I could telnet into them and back and forth. Then > I moved them into another room. Now I can't telnet into them. Not even > from one FreeBSD box to the other, and they are right next to eachother. I > keep getting a connection refused. Does anyone know how or why this > happened? Or more to the point how to fix > it? I can ping both machines so I know they are on the network it is just > telnet that is wunky. Thank you for your time on this problem. > > Chris > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message