Re: Can't Telnet To PM2e
Andy Doolittle ((no email))
Sun, 1 Oct 1995 18:53:54 -0700 (PDT)
>
> On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Garry Shtern wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Mury Andrew Johnson wrote:
> > > fine. This time I have tried everything, resetting the pm, rebooting the
> > > accounting server that we telnet to the pm from, looking through the
> > > logs, everything, and I can't find the problem, nor can I solve it
> > > accidentally.
> > >
> >
> > Try loggin onto the pm and typing show netconns, and see if there is
> > anything on the port 23.
>
> Well, that's another lesson in assumptions. I thought by resetting all,
> I was effectively reset *all*. You were right, there were the four
> connections to port 23. Which is also scary since the connections were
> from dialup ppp users telnetting back into the portmaster. So now I have
> to find out which person (hopefully it's a misinformed employee, and not
> a hack) didn't get the message about not administrating over phone lines.
>
> Finally, I have one more question...
>
> How do I clear/reset the telnet port, without rebooting? BTW, I changed
> the telnet port to 888 to see if it would clear port 23, or if I could
> "open" up four more telnet possibilities. If I should know how to reset
> the telnet port already, I apologize for my ignorance.
When you show netconns you get a handle number in the forst column for
the telnet connections. You simply "reset n<#>" and the connection will
be closed.
andy
> Thank you for your help.
>
> mury@goldengate.net
>