Alan Connor <xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote in message news:<vnc_a.3355$Nf3.2419@newsread4.news.pas.earth link.net>...

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> You are SURE that telnetd is running on the machine you want to log in on?
> Or that inetd is configured to bring it up?

yes, because i can 'telnet localhost'

> You may have your firewall configured to reject packets that try to
> establish a connection. Ping doesn't do that.
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> Assuming iptables, you could try iptables --list as root

i've tried running iptables, but it said command not found.

when doing a 'find' for 'iptables' the command/file does not seem to exist.