From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 27 20:38:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27060 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:38:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27001 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:38:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id UAA01458; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:38:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:38:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Jan Koum X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Brendan Kosowski cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Telnet Problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ugh.. I'd second what someone said before: looks like tcp wrappers. See if on the Linux machine you can look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files. -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." Linux -- DOS of the Unix world. On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Brendan Kosowski wrote: > >I am trying out FreeBSD 2.2.5 and have ran into the following Telnet >problem : > >When trying to log into ANY remote LINUX system ( using the telnet >command ), I get the normal "Escape character is ^]" message followed by a >"Connection closed by foreign host" message. > >This is a bit strange when you concider that I can log into the remote >LINUX system if I use rlogin command on the FreeBSD system or if I use a >different operating system ( ie. WIN95 with Telnet Program ). > >Would love to know if anyone else has had this problem. > > >Thanks & Regards, Brendan Kosowski > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message