On Saturday 03 July 2004 19:04, Thomas Sapp wrote: > Ok, here is hopefully my last problem for a while... (Doubt it! > hehe) I have several computers setup on a network connecting to a > cable modem through a linksys dsl/cable router w/8 port switch. I > have my Fedora Care 2 machine set up as DMZ Host. > > I can connect to the HTTP, VNC, and FTP services without any > problems, however, I can not access IdentD, Telnet or Finger > services. I have done several searches and they all tend to refer > to an inetd.conf which I assume under fedora is xinetd.conf. I > have made the many suggested changes and have also contacted my ISP > Tech helpdesk and Linksys's helpdesk but nothing seems to resolve > the issue. > > Does anyone have any ideas why I get an error of "Could not open > connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed" or "> Finger: > connect::Connection refused" when using these services? I think it > may have to do with the host.allow and host.deny files but these > are both empty at the moment. Any help would be appreciated. > > > Thanks, > Thomas Sapp > http://www.sappsworld.com > > _________________________________________________________________ for telnet, try: #chkconfig telnet on #service xinetd restart then make sure you have no firewall blocking port 23 for identd, try #service indentd start then make sure you have no firewall blocking port 113 for fingerd, well, I don't have it on my FC1 box so I can't say for sure ...... By the way, look into security considerations for these if you're not familiar with them. Regards, Mike Klinke
