[PLUG] New Install won't let me Telnet, FTP, or http

[D. Cooper Stevenson]

Brian;

Add a /etc/inetd.d/telnet file with the following and send an HUP to
xinetd:

# default: off
# description: A chargen server. This is the tcp \
# version.

service telnet
{
#       type            = INTERNAL
        id              = telnet
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        user            = root
        wait            = no
        disable         = no
}


On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:06, Brian & Lori Nordlund wrote:
> I've searched various archives, but I have not found the reason for my problem.  I am running a "server" in the closet as a firewall to my DSL account.  Previously, I was running an earlier version of Mandrake.  With that installation, telnet, ftp, and apache all were accessable from the inside by default (I didn't have to do anything or know anything to make it work!).  Since I updated to Mandrake 7.2 none of these services respond at all, even from an xterm on the machine itself (response to telnet is "telnet: unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused").  I am guessing that later versions of mandrake have become more paranoid so thay don't come with everything turned on like they used to.  That doesn't help the bumblers like me.
> 
> 
> Some points:
> 
> I am running static IP's on the inside (eth1) with the server and two other machines (running DHCP to the DSL side (eth0)).  I can ping from the inside to the server, and through to the outside.  In fact all the ipchains stuff is working great as far as my internet access is concerned.
> 
> There is no guest account on the machine (would it be needed for these services?).
> 
> 
> I read through http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds6-1/linuxsec.html  to try and check a few things, during which I collected the following information:
> 
> hosts.allow has a single entry for my subnet (ALL: 192.18.30.0/255.255.255.0).  hosts.disallow has a single entry of ALL:ALL.
> 
> 
> I have HUP'ed xinetd a few times.  When I did it to inetd, it came back saying "inetd: no process killed"
> 
> I am assuming that xinetd is running rather than inetd.  However, etc/inetd.conf does exsist and includes:
> ftp    stream tcp  nowait root   /usr/sbin/tcpd       in.ftpd -l -a
> telnet stream tcp  nowait root   /usr/sbin/tcpd       in.telnetd
> 
> 
> 
> /etc/xinetd.conf is small enough to include in its entirety:
> defaults
> {
>    instancees          =60
>    log_type              = SYSLOG authpriv
>    log_on_success  = HOST PID
>    log_on_failure      = HOST RECORD
> }
> includedir  /etc/xinetd.d
> 
> 
> In looking at /etc/xinetd.d this directory includes the following files:
> wu-ftpd
> time-udp
> time
> swat
> rsh
> rlogin
> rexec
> linuxconf-web
> ipop3
> imap
> echo-udp
> echo
> daytime-udp
> daytime
> chargen-udp
> chargen
> 
> 
> /etc/services has almost every port open, especially the ones associated with ftp, telnet and http.
> 
> There is no /etc/rc.inet2 file
> 
> tcpd exists in /usr/sbin 
> 
> 
> 
> My head hurts and I hope someone can catch what is probably a simple ommission so I can get some rest.  Thanks for any help or direction you can provide.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian.