telnet question

[David Johnson]

woohoo awesome! that worked.
So it all boiled down to the tcpwrapper allow...interesting
thanks for your awesome help Mitchell!

David Johnson


Mitchell Patenaude wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 05:34:47PM -0700, David Johnson wrote:
> > I went through your first checklist and everything checked out o.k.
> > when I checked my /etc/hosts.(allow|deny) I got this..
> >
> > contents of /etc/hosts.allow
> >
> > swat:    127.0.0.1    192.168.0.
>
> Okay, this means that you can connect to the swat port/daemon from
> the loopback address and the 19.168.0.* IP range.
>
> You can add permissions like so:
>
> in.telnetd:     192.168.1.240/255.255.255.240
>
> which allows telnet from the addresses in the range 192.168.1.(240-255)
>
> Of you can do specific addresses:
>
> in.telnetd:     10.6.78.40
>
> Or combinations of lots of other things... type 'man hosts.allow' to
> get a better tutorial.
>
>    -- Mitch