From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 13 12:10: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BDC1517E for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:09:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA20842; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:06:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <199911132006.PAA20842@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Jonathon McKitrick" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:07:44 -0500 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: enabling telnet Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 06:18:16 -0500, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >In inetd.conf, i have telnet enabled. I would like to allow one friend >to telnet to my machine for an account i have set up for him. But is >tells connection refused... port service unavailable..... > >Do i need more entries? Or is this a security feature? Do you have IPFW up? As root try "ipfw list". If you have a set or rules then one of them probably is the problem. It may also be worthy trying to telnet to an outside box that you know has telnet enabled. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message