Don Russell wrote:
Fedora 7
I have a small telnet server listening on port 23, and want to run a
second one on port 8023 (rather arbitrary) which I'll use for testing
changes to the server app I wrote.
The one on port 23 works properly but when I try to connect to the one
on port 8023, I get an error: connection refused.
I tried this from the command line: telnet localhost 8023
and I get the 'connection refused' error.
I added port 8023 using the"firewall settings"... but it still fails,
I also restarted xinetd to pick up the additional server...
SELinux is in permissive mode.
I've obviously missed something.... but what?
Thanks.
xinetd was not starting properly because:
1 -
I specified a service name of 'telnet' but a port of 8023. /etc/services
says telnet is on port 23
I created a new 'service' in /etc/services on port 8023 and xinetd was OK
2 -
When I tried to add port 8023 using the admin/firewall tool... the
change did not "stick"... that is, I added the port, clicked apply/ok...
but when I went to look at the settings again, port 8023 was no longer
in the list.
I d/l the 'firestarter' package and used it to define a 'rule' to allow
port 8023 from my internal network.
That seemed to have overwritten all the firewall rules so it was the
only service that was working properly until I added all the new rules
with firestarter.
We're golden.. it's all working now.
Thanks to those who replied with ideas and suggestions.
I hope this summary might be helpful to future archive-searchers. :-)
