Date: 04 Jan 2001 07:43:31 -0600 From: Tim Ayers <tayers@bridge.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connection refused to my own port Message-ID: <hf3ftou4.fsf@tim.bridge.com> In-Reply-To: Doug Barton's message of "Wed, 03 Jan 2001 23:01:32 -0800" References: <r92s35jj.fsf@tim.bridge.com> <3A541FCC.BE6F155B@gorean.org>
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>>>>> "D" == Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> writes: D> Tim Ayers wrote: >> I have written a simple C echo server that accepts a connection and >> echoes back whatever is sent to it. This works fine if I connect >> from the same machine or a machine on the same subnet as the server >> machine. But if I try to connect from a machine outside the subnet I >> get a "Connection refused" message. How can I allow connections to my >> "custom" port from outside my subnet? D> Fix your hosts.allow file? Thanks for the reply. I think my hosts.allow file is okay. Or more accurately I think my hosts.allow file is not the problem. It has ALL : ALL : allow as the first line. My understanding is that it should not be denying anything, right? I also confirmed that my inetd is started with '-wW', which I believe is necessary for the hosts.allow file to be used. I'm definitely stumped at the moment, but that's not too surprising since I don't know much about FreeBSD. :-/ One other tidbit is that in my inetd.conf I only have the ftp and telnet entries uncommented. All other services are commented out. Maybe something else takes care of this? Thanks a lot for the help. Hope you have a very nice day, :-) Tim Ayers (tayers@bridge.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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