Hi Folks, I am taken aback by the following. Last night, while a big thunderstorm was building up, I took down (using "shutdown -h" in a proper manner) and switched off our 3 machines: two RedHat and one S.u.S.E.-5.1 This morning it is fine and sunny and I have switched them all on and rebooted them. Anything can telnet to either of the two Red Hat machines. Nothing can telnet to the S.u.S.E. machine (nor ftp nor ... ): the result is always "Connection refused". Even "telnet localhost" or "telnet 192.168.0.1" (its IP address) from the machine itself gets "Connection refused". Does anyone have an idea what may have happened here? I've been in the LInux game for years and reckon I know what I'm doing; but this one has me beat. Everything was fine before. I've looked in /etc/SuSEconfig, I've run /sbin/SuSEconfig, I've been into YaST. Still stuck. I hope it's not a flaw in S.u.S.E.: if so, as far as I'm concerned it would mean curtains for an otherwise apparently fine distribution. /etc/hosts.allow looks OK: (ALL EXCEPT in.fingerd) EXCEPT in.identd : ALL : (safe_finger -l @%h 2>&1| \ /bin/mail -s "0-%h 0" root) & /etc/hosts.deny also looks OK: http-rman : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL Outputs from "ifconfig" and "route" look fine. All help and useful comment appreciated. With thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 09-May-98 Time: 11:35:18 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e