telnet to adjacent computer fails

[don fisher]

On 03/04/12 18:48, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Tim Evans<tkevans at tkevans.com>  wrote:
>> On 03/04/2012 08:35 PM, don fisher wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What does telnet require that ping does not?
>>
>>
>> A running telnet daemon on the destination host.
>
> Yep.  Try SSH.  Besides being nine quintillion times more secure, it's
> generally included by default on Fedora systems.
>
> My first guess for your NFS issue would be the firewall.  Check
> `system-config-firewall` if it's a graphical system or
> `system-config-firewall-tui` on the console and make sure the ports
> are open, unless you already configured it manually with iptables.
>
> If SSH isn't working, it probably isn't open in the firewall either,
> _even if it says it is_ thanks to a longstanding annoying bug.  Try
> disabling it and reenabling it in the firewall config to get it to
> work.
>
> -T.C.
Thanks. ssh and scp work fine. But when I try to mount an nfs share I 
receive "mount to NFS server 'XXX' failed: No route to host" in 
var/log/messages. Same message I receive from telnet.

Don