[H-GEN] Unable to telnet

[Steven MCINTYRE]

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> I know it is something simple that I'm missing but I can't seem to telnet to my
> own machine no matter what I do.
> 
> 'telnet 127.0.0.1' gets 'Connection closed by foreign host' no matter what I
> put in hosts.allow and hosts.deny.

  try the following:  /etc/hosts.allow

  ALL: 127.0.0.1: ALLOW
  ALL: ALL: DENY

  /etc/hosts.deny

  ALL: PARANOID

  this setup worked fine for two machines I played with this weekend in
Nerang (redhat 6.0, 2.2.13)

  Steven McIntyre
  stev at uq.net.au


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