[H-GEN] Unable to telnet

[Craig Eldershaw]

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>'telnet 127.0.0.1' gets 'Connection closed by foreign host' no matter what I
>put in hosts.allow and hosts.deny.

How are you running telnet on the machine ?  telnetd ?  inetd ? inetd+tcpd ?
Probably the last of these.  In any case, look in your log files to see what 
is being said about your attempt.

As a TEMPORARY measure, add "ALL:ALL" to hosts.allow and use a blank hosts.deny.
Now add back the lines from your other files gradually until you find the rule which
is denying you entry.

>Another question is that when I try to telnet without my ISP connection it
>takes about 5 mins to give me the message, when connected it takes about 10 secs

It sounds like it is trying to resolve the host you are coming from by
querying the DNS.  Since you are off line, then you have to wait until
all attempts to contact all your nameservers time out.  Is your /ete/hosts file
set up properly (ie. including 127.0.0.1 localhost) ?

Cheers,
	Craig.

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