Re: [cobalt-users] mail-server, telnet severe problems

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Gerald Waugh wrote:

> "Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote
> > "Elias Katsis" <netcontrol@xxxxxxxxx>

> > I can not SSH into the system, and enabling telnet does not allow me to telnet
> >
> It looks like my problem may be to the following log entry!
> Feb 18 12:30:04 fsn1 in.proftpd[9361]: error: /etc/hosts.deny, line 37: bad
> option name: "209.196.58.2"
> Is it possible that an error like this could cause all connections to be
> refused?

Yes, be carefull adding things to hosts.deny folks, if you have a syntax
error, inetd won't load either, and most services including telnet will
fail....

Now, if you had ssh.....

gsh