Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:20:44 +0200 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Aaron Glenn <aaron.glenn@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tftpd does not respond to connections Message-ID: <20050912142044.GA12779@epia2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <18f6019405091022017b43a199@mail.gmail.com> References: <18f6019405091022017b43a199@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 10:01:23PM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: > This has got me thoroughly stumped. On both stock FreeBSD 4.9 and > FreeBSD 5.4 installs, tftpd does not and will not work. I uncomment > out the first tftpd line found in /etc/inetd.conf, kill -HUP > `/var/run/inetd.pid` and then attempt to connect to port 69. I've > tried: > > - telnetting to localhost and the IP assigned to the network > interface, to no avail You can't "connect" to a UDP server... > - binding inetd to a specific IP with the -a switch and telnetting to > that, to no avail > - using the tftp client to both localhost and IP, both with inetd > binding to all, and a specific IP > > I've tried it on both a 4.9 box, and a 5.4 box, both -RELEASE. Clearly > I'm missing something but I haven't seen any howto, man page, or > document explaining the need to do anything beyond uncommenting the > inetd.conf line and -HUP'ing the inetd process. In both cases (4.9 and > 5.4), netstat shows the tftpd process, but never in a LISTEN state. You mean something like this: udp4 0 0 net4801-2.tftp *.* without the 'LISTEN' keyword? Perhaps because it's UDP? Anyway, that's from a TFTPD server, which is used by diskless clients. It works just fine. > Please CC as I'm not subscribed to -questions (but at this rate I > probably should be...) > > regards, > aaron.glenn Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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