Re: Localhost connection refused

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

Jonathan Q wrote...

> Try disabling ipchains entirely:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains stop
>
> and see if that changes things.  I imagine it would :-)

It didn't change my inability to connect to localhost in any way.

> I would not allow telnet even on a box that was behind a firewall,
> NATted, running its own firewall, and properly locked down (of
> course, "properly locked down" by definition means that telnet is
> disabled) but you can find those things in /etc/xinetd.d.

Aren't multiple distros fun? That directory on Red Hat 7.1 has only 
linuxconf-web  and rsync  .

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