[techtalk] Debian woes

[Kath]

I should have mentioned the Apache works fine.

It is odd, telnet works now, but it takes forever to get a connection
through.

- Kathy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicole Zimmerman" <colby at wsu.edu>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Debian woes


> > Can you get to other services?  telnetd is a inetd service and wu-ftpd
> > can be run via inetd.  You should check /etc/hosts.deny to see if
> > tcp_wrappers will be dropping your connection.  Other tahn that it is
> > difficult to diagnose your problem without further information.
>
> My suggestions:
>
> check logs in /var/log/syslog (at least that's where I looked when I was
> having these sorts of problems) to see what is going on when a connection
> attempt is happening
>
> check hosts.deny and hosts.allow. Turn off paranoid (comment out the line
> ALL: ALL: PARANOID) and see if that makes a difference (for me it didn't
> but we tested it a couple of times to see if that was the problem), if not
> you might want to turn it back on.
>
> check ip masq/forwarding to see if there are some rules in there you don't
> like. Somehow my box was denying incoming stuff using rules I'd never
> implemented... try ipfwadm -F (forwarding rules) -O (out rules) and -I (in
> rules) to see what rules are in there and you can use -d to delete.
>
>
> Again, I think knowing if other services are working a-ok would be helpful
> (webserver? samba? anything?)
>
> -nicole
>
>
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