telnet was refused

[scottgai]

Dear all,
Please help me with this problem.
I have a Sun box with the Solaris 7, and now got such a problem. when I want to telnet to this machine from other site, the system will refuse my request by say "Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused". This also will happen even I start telnet on this machine by typing "telnet localhost". Just before this problem appears,
I have restarted the daemon process "inetd". Does this have any effect on the telnet service?

Thanks a lot!
Scott

 

[aixmurderer]

The inetd does control the telnet server if it was set up the default way.

You need to look at your /etc/inetd.conf file and see if telnet is defined there, post the line here so we can check it.

Make sure that port 23 is defined in /etc/services as well. IBM Certified Specialist - MQSeries
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX 5 pSeries System Administration

 

[scottgai]

aixmurderer,
Thanks a lot for your reponse!
The line in file /etc/inetd.conf about telnet is listed below:
"telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.telnetd in.telnetd"
And also there is a line in file /etc/services, which is listed here:
"telnet 23/tcp"

I'd like to describe what I've done in order to help understand this problem.
The start point is that I edited the file inetd.conf to add a cvs service, the added line is:
"cvsserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs --allow
-root=/ora04/cvsroot -f --allow-root=/usr3isos/CVS_ISOS pserver"
then to let the new cvs service be effective, I manully killed and restarted the process inetd using the following command:

kill 'inetd's pid'
/usr/sbin/inetd -s &

I don't know whether this is the cause of the problem.

 

[KenCunningham]

If it helps you can stop and restart the inetd process by issuing the following:

kill -HUP <PID_of_inetd>

Hope this helps.

 

[KenCunningham]

Sorry, that doesn't seem to work, not sure why, try:

/etc/rc2.d/S72inetsvc start

Good luck.