telnet problem

Hecate

have a machine running suse here and I cant seem to telnet into it. The message I get back is "telnetd:getnameinfo"

I'm guessing this is somthing to do with the telnet daemon being configured incorrectly; any ideas about it?

Enygma

Hehe, I was just about to post the same thing.
Suse 7.1 - same message.
Can't FTP into it either but Apache seems to be running fine.

toil

apache = Web server...runs program to have web pages on a machine.

ftp has it's on service(or program)

from the error msg telnetd:getnameinfo
i'd guess somethign wrong with DNS server?
anyone?

MiCr0

solution here:
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/telnet_getnameinfo.html

Enygma

Yah I know they are diff services but aren't they all run under the same daemon? inetd?

Ronin

..dahamsta I know exactly how to configure box's..

most people won't deviate from the standard setup, so they won't attempt to run stuff via inetd/xinetd unless they know why they are doing so.

ftp and telnet are examples because as you said they aren't required to run all the time.

What I meant was that you can call things like sshd and httpd from command while things like ftp and intelnet.d are mostly called via inetd/xinetd so if you change anything in conf files then you need to HUP/restart inetd/xinetd to get it to pick up said changes.

But then you could also run stuff via inittab as well. say ncftpd for example.

Ro (who wishs that we'd a 2nd wireless nic basestation to move work outside for the day.)


[This message has been edited by Ronin (edited 02-07-2001).]

Hecate

its ok its fixed now.

I just had to restart inetd using killall -HUP inetd and it telnet started working properly.

ssh isnt much of a priority since the box isnt physically connected to the internet.

[This message has been edited by Hecate (edited 02-07-2001).]

Ronin

Eh apache has its own daemon called httpd, things like telnet and ftp are run via inetd or xinetd, ssh has its own daemon called sshd.

Hec you should be running ssh rather then telnet ..

Ro

dahamsta

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Eh apache has its own daemon called httpd, things like telnet and ftp are run via inetd or xinetd, ssh has its own daemon called sshd.</font>

Well, it depends on the setup Ronin. A system can be running everything though inetd/xinetd, but it could also be running httpd, telnetd, ftpd, and sshd. It's unlikely that httpd would be run through inetd for performance reasons, but it's not impossible. Also, when services are run through inetd, they're still using the daemons, they're just not running all the time.

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Hec you should be running ssh rather then telnet ..</font>

True. No-one should be using telnet/telnetd anymore.

adam