Re: Rick Stevens

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Dan Walker wrote:
> Seems that you have just got in to read you emails.
>
> Please see if you can shed light on the telnet issue that i have...
>
> My win xp machine can telnet my linux machine.
>
> 1.     I have taken the tick away from services for the telnet part of 
> xinetd
>
> 2.     Have looked at the file /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and checked that 
> disable=yes is in there. - it was there anyway.
>
> 3.     Have looked at hosts.allow and that is clear - just the comments 
> section at the top.
>
> 4.     Stopped the xinetd service just to make sure that it was 
> something to do with telnet and something else was not the problem.
>
> The problem is still there. What the hell shall I do???

First, let's see if the linux box is indeed listening to the telnet
port.  Type in this command as the root user:

    netstat -lpn

See if there's a process listening on port 23.  The entry will look
something like:

    tcp   0   0.0.0.0:23   0.0.0.0:*    LISTEN   874/xinetd

If there is no such listing, then telnet is NOT active.  If there is a
listing AND the end of the line is not "xinetd", then the program
listed is the one listening on the telnet port and we have a problem.
You can kill that process ID (the number before the "/") and see if you
can telnet to the machine.  If you can't, then you have to figure out
what's causing that weird program to run.

Do that research first and let us know what the results are.
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