Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 53883
telnet won't work untill xinetd is restarted.
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:37:16 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686) Description of problem: I installed RH 7.1 (full installation), and then applied a large number of updates from the RH update site (current as of about August 1). I enabled telnet by editing the /etc/xinet.d/, changed disabled to no. When the machine first boots, I cannot telnet into the machine, even from itself: The message I see is: [greear@grok greear]$ telnet lanf2 Trying 192.168.1.56... Connected to lanf2 (192.168.1.56). Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. [greear@grok greear]$ However, if I run this command, as root, after logging in on the console, it works: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart This is reproducible on several different machines running the same configuration (RH 7.1 + updates). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.See description 2. 3. Additional info:
Which xinetd do you have installed?
I was using xinetd 2.3.0. I just upgrade to xinetd 2.3.3 and it seems to have fixed the problem.
OK - then it looks like just another duplicate of 48367 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48367 ***