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Darryl Hoar wrote:

>Greetings,
>I have tried to get putty configured to access my 5.1 release box using
>SSH.  No joy, and I'm quite tired of trying.
>
>I tried to enable telnet on my 5.1 box.  Uncommented inetd.conf line, and
>verified that the services line was in place.   I tried to connect to the
>box
>with telnet and got a connection refused.  Even rebooted the box with the
>same result.
>
>I am accessing this box on my internal network, and my firewall blocks
>the telnet port, so I'm not worried about outside access.  So, telnet will
>get me by for now.
>
>Any ideas what's wrong ?
>
>BTW, searched the mailing list archives on freebsd.org , but didn't find
>info about this.
>
>thanks,
>Darryl
>
>  
>

"Your firewall blocks the telnet port" ...
Are you sure that:

    1.  Your firewall is not blocking the port
          on your LAN interface as well?
    2.  Your telnet/PuTTY session is attempting
          to connect to the correct interface?

Kevin Kinsey