We live in a lighting area. Once I had everything off, after the storm, when I turned puter back on, the modem and phone wouldn't work. Turned out the lightening had hit the phone line only. I had a big surge come down the phone line and fry the ends of the cable where it plugged into the wall socket. I am used to lightening hits, but had never seen just the phone lines hit. Replaced the cable and all was ok, but the damage was very hard to see, just looking at the socket. I had to take it out of the socket and then I could tell everything was melted. So I assume you have checked your cables and etc..... (Ted Harding) wrote:
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.
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