[ale] RH6.0 and enabling 'telnet' and sibs

[Bradley Leonard]

Yes there is.  You can either remove the /usr/sbin/tcpd from the lines in
/etc/inetd.conf (which I don't recommend) or you can edit the file
/etc/hosts.allow and add the following:

ALL: ALL

This will allow every machine in the world to connect to your machine.  If
your box is a masquerading box that is on both an internal network and the
internet I would recommend this configuration:

/etc/hosts.allow:

ALL: 10.5.5.0/255.255.255.0

/etc/hosts.deny:

ALL: ALL

These two entries will deny everybody in the world except for the machines
on the subnet 10.5.5.0.  They will have full access to the machine.

For more information regarding the format of these two files and on tcpd
in general, do a man on "tcpd" and "hosts.allow".

Brad


On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Bob Kruger wrote:
> 
> To all in ALE - is there a way to disable this so that on a small network
> without a DNS or editing the /etc/hosts file one can telnet in without the
> annoying time delay?  
> 
> Regards - Bob
>