Problem with inbound connections

Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin at weiss.name
Thu May 13 13:22:35 UTC 2004


From: "Daniel H. Vickers" <shrekster at danielvickers.com>
> For some reson, I didn't see my other post on this show up on the list, so
> here goes again.
> I just installed RH9. I have out bound connections just fine. But no
inbound
> connections at all other then webmin. I've tried both by ip and by domain.
> My host isn't blocking any of the ports cause my windows box is working
fine
> on the inbound connections. My hosts.deny and hosts.allow are both empty
> (defacto from install), my firewall is defacto from setup also. When I was
> going through the install of RH and it asked about the firewall, I put
none,
> so nothing would be blocked and I could setup the way I wanted after I
> finished the install. All the services I am trying to access work fine
when
> i access them localy on the linux box, but not remotely from any computer
> that I have been able to tell. Services I have been trying to access are
so
> far; ssh, telnet, httpd, etc... It's just weird that I can access webmin,
> but nothing else. Any ideas would be greatly appriciated.

Try running:

netstat -tap

This will tell you what services you are running that are bound to ports and
are listening.  It could be that your services aren't on for some reason.

Ben





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