Telnet connection closed by foreign host

[Bosco Tsang]

Since I've rebooted my Solaris 8 box this afternoon, I no longer be
able to log into the box. Whenever I try, locally or remotely, it
prompt me the following, even before I got a chance to start any login
process ...

>Escape character is '^]'.
>Local flow control off
>
>SunOS 5.8
>
>Connection closed by foreign host.

Some checks I've done ...

- I got tcp wrapper, and it's config okay, it can work with ftp
- I can login via ssh, thus the account and shell are there
- localhost and the test remote host is on /etc/hosts.allow table
- inetd.conf confirm it's using tcpd and point to in.telnetd
- telnet port is not commented out in /etc/services
- ipfilter is in place but it's not blocking that port
- mail.log (syslog) report connected

So, why telnet no longer works after reboot?

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[Rich Teer]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Bosco Tsang wrote:

> Some checks I've done ...
>
> - I got tcp wrapper, and it's config okay, it can work with ftp
> - I can login via ssh, thus the account and shell are there

If you can log in using ssh, why are you even bothering with
telnet? It should be disabled (and that might even be what's
causing your "problem").

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