From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 11:07:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27317 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27182 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:07:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA13481; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:07:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:07:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Sconiers, John" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: won't accept telnet connections In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Sconiers, John wrote: > I inherited a Freebsd box and need a little help. The Sys-admin > before me setup a trusted environment that only allows telnet to > certain freebsd and sun boxes through a Linux box. In order for me > to telnet to the freebsd box (or any other box) I must login to the > linux box first. I am assuming that the freebsd box checks what IP # > you come in from and if your not coming in from the linux box it > refuses the connection. Can someone please explain how I may resolve > this. They probably installed TCP wrappers, so there will be a /etc/hosts.allow and or /etc/hosts.deny. You might check if ssh is installed, it's a much more secure form of telnet. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message