Re: Localhost connection refused

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

Jonathan Q wrote...
> John De Hoog (dehoog@example.com) wrote:
> > 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9.19 running at
> > localhost.localdomain
> >
> > But when I try to access localhost from an NNTP client, I get
> > Connection refused.
>
> News servers are pretty far off my radar, having never had any
> personal interest or professional need to administer one, and
> leaf node is not installed on any system I use, so this could be
> a stupid request, but does leafnode use a config file?  If so,
> does that config file allow you to specify what hosts can connect?
> One would hope so.  Perhaps its default is to allow no connections at
> all.  This is also a Good Thing.
>
> If it has a config file, and if a default deny from all is a
> possibility (or even if not), let us see your leafnode config file.
> Maybe some clues will present themselves.

The leafnode config file itself says nothing about who may access 
localhost; it only controls access to the remote servers. I have 
/etc/nntpserver set to localhost. I have /etc.hosts.allow set to 
"leafnode localhost". I've followed the installation instructions to the 
letter, and fetchnews works fine. The problem that remains is lack of 
permission to access localhost, even from root.
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