Fedora Users — Re: localhost Connection Refused.

Some of these suggestions may or may not be helpful. When I first loaded my Fedora, I found that just about all networking capabilities were turned off by default as a security measure. To turn telnet on, logged on as root or the superuser, go to directory /etc/xinetd.d and edit file "telnet". You willprobably find that there is a line that says "disable = yes". Edit the file to change the "yes" to a"no". Make sure when you set up your firewalls that all the protocols/sockets that you want are allowed through the firewall (e.g., telnet (23), http (80), etc.). Once you have done this you have to restart xinetd (to get telnet to work). You do this by first finding out the process under which xinetd is running (ps -ef | grep xinetd). This should return a line that look something like this: root 827 1 0 16:12 ? 00:00:00 xinetd -stayalive .................................. (the 827 in this case is the process number, yours will probably be a different number). Submit the command: kill -SIGHUP 827 (or whatever your process for xinetd is). This will restart xinetd, and because you have edited the telnet configuration file, will turn on the telnet daemon. The http daemon is usually run as its own process. Do a "ps" to make sure httpd is running. If not, as root, you can start it yourself (consult the man page for httpd).

Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:

Please send the output of 'ifconfig -a' - the loopback connection may
not actually be up, although it ought to be...

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Vince Thompson wrote:

I have two computers that I loaded Fedora on. I am trying to get the web
browser to show the localhost but keep getting the Connection Refused
message on both machines.

If I use http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 I get the connection refused.
If I use Telnet to connect I get the connection refused message too.
If I try rlogin I get the connection refused message.
I was trying to get Samba and Swat working so http://localhost:901 was one
of the first addresses I tried and got the connection refused message.

I am able to connect to the machines with ssh and from a Windows machine
using PuTTY.

The desktop machine has the following in its hosts file:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will vail.
127.0.0.1        hpvli8ux            localhost.localdomain         localhost
192.168.1.12   vetts

I have the firewall turned off.

Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution?

I've tried google searches but haven't found a solution yet. Also, is there
a way to search the archives for this maillist?