can't telnet to Suse 7.1

[Jay Chin]

Why can't I telnet into my Suse machine from another machine.

The error message I get is

telnetd: getnameinfo.

connection closed by foreign host.


I am able to ping this machine and use SSH to connect.Any help would be much appreciated.

[miker]

why not use SSH, which is more secure anyway.

You can SSH from a windoze PC using PuTTY which is also free.

As to your error, have you tried telnet with the IP address rather than hostname?

[Coral Sea]

SSH is the way to go but if you insist on telnet, are you sure you have a telnet server installed on the SuSE box? Is it turned on?

[Rastar]

Doh... Okay have to ask the silly question are you using a router? If so you need to turn on the port in your router config. I beat this down for almost a week before I got it figured out.

Well anything is better than nothing!

Rastar
:p