Need help

[Otto Destruct]

The server I'm working on is connected through a network, and internet is working on it. The bad thing is that I can't telnet into the machine... maybe its a domain problem? Thats my guess anyway... once again in case you guys don't know already, I know little about linux and even less about this system except that its kernel is compiled from scratch.

[wreckd]

by "domain problem" i guess you mean the dns name for the system? if that's the case you should still be able to telnet in by address.

first check to make sure telnet is running correctly locally:
telnet localhost
should allow you to login like you expect. if that works then try to ping the box from another system by name. does it resolve correctly? try telnetting in by ip address. any response?

[Craig McPherson]

Well, you provided extremely little information about your system or what you're trying to do, but I'll give it a shot.

1. Is telnetd running? Standalone, or from a superserver?

2. Does an nmap scan of localhost show port 23 open?

3. Do you have anything in hosts.deny and hosts.allow?

4. Can you telnet from the local machine to the local machine?

If 4 is true, then the connection is being dropped or blocked either by the machine's firewall or by TCP wrappers. You can tell which by observing the behavior -- if the telnet connection is never established, it's being dropped by the firewall, if it's established but then immediately closed by the server before anything goes through, that's TCP wrappers.

I hope this gets you started. Please post back with more information.

[Otto Destruct]

Yes by domain i meant dns.. couldnt think of the word at the time... anyways I'll try that.