I've got it fixed now. Thanks for your help everyone... -Michael Sullivan On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 18:41, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > I'm having a problem accessing the pop3 port on my server. The server > > on a computer named bullet at 192.168.1.4 . The computer I am trying > > to access bullet from is named baby and my user account is michael. > > I've tried telnetting from baby to bullet on port 110 from baby, but it > > says Connection refused. Yet if I ssh over to bullet and telnet from > > there, I can get port 110 no problem. I used > > redhat-config-securitylevel to make sure that bullet accepted telnet > > requests, and it does. > > Accepting telnet is not the same as accepting telnet to port 110. This > is accepting pop3 (not telnet). The fact that you used telnet to get > there is irrelevant. You need to add port 110 to the list of 'trusted > services'. > > And you should definitely turn telnet back off. > > It works when you ssh, because from then on, you're locally on the > machine, and all local connections are allowed. > > I don't use the security level tool, so I don't know how to do it with > that. If you know how to edit your iptables file > (/etc/sysconfig/iptables) you probably need something like > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT > > HTH,
