Telnet/ssh connection refused

[Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan@example.com>]

Hi all,

I am having problems in setting up telnet and ssh
on Linux Mandrake7.2. I get the following message
when I try to telnet/ssh to localhost (or even with hostname).

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# telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
# ssh -l username localhost
Secure connection to localhost refused.
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I tried to edit my etc/hosts.allow to allow telnet
connection for my domain. My /etc/hosts.allow looks
something like

[/etc/hosts.allow]
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ALL : .mydomain.ac.jp
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Any suggestions about how to allow access to my server
via telnet/ssh

Thanks in advance.

Venkatesh Raghavan
Osaka City University