Localhost connection refused

[John De Hoog <dehoog@example.com>]

On Red Hat 7.1, connected to ADSL by router and with DCHP, I am trying to 
set up leafnode for news. I'm able to get fetchnews to get my groups list 
from the NNTP server in the U.S., but when I set localhost as my local 
news host I get a connection refused.

Telnetting to localhost, even as root, also produces a Connection refused 
response.

I have my Red Hat firewall set to Medium default. localhost is defined in 
/etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1.

Any hints as to the basic thing I'm doing wrong??

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