Re: Localhost connection refused

[Uva Coder <uvacoder@example.com>]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:23:21PM +0900, John De Hoog wrote:
> 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??

Wrong? That's great! A sign of a well-configured firewall. You will
need to look at your ipchains configuration and modify the rules
a bit to open up the ports you want. But for out of the box firewall
solution, refusing connections from the localhost is a very good
firewall policy. 

-- Uva Coder