telnetd mystery ....

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/30/2013 02:42 PM, David G. Miller wrote:
> Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko <at> greshko.com> writes:
>
>> On 01/29/2013 10:19 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:46:58AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> <SNIP>
>>>> Has anyone configured telnetd for use on F18?
> <SNIP>
>>> I just did, and I didn't add -D, but I did change "disabled = yes" to "no"
>>> in the telnet xinetd config. And it just worked.
>> Thanks for testing.  
>>
>> That is what I did too....  And it fails as described.   I'm stumped.
>>
> Seeing the same problem here that Ed saw.  I am seeing one interesting twist
> that Ed didn't mention.  If I start the telnet server on my F18 box with
> something like "server_args = -D report", I can login locally.  If I try to log
> in from a different box, I get a "no route to host" message which is bogus since
> I can ping the F18 system or ssh to it.  I messed with hosts.allow and
> hosts.deny but didn't see any change.

I don't see that.  And, since you said iptables is stopped (I also tested that way), it is completely bogus.

>
> Maybe the problem isn't in telnetd but in tcp wrappers instead.

A possibility.   Not as easy to verify.....

>
>


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