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Old 05-12-2008
sparcguy sparcguy is offline Forum Advisor  
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I have a problem where on one unix machine I can telnet all IP addresses in the host file with no connection problem and another machine has recently started to have trouble connecting with the same host IP's on just some IP addresses where it had no trouble before. Have any ideas??
maybe that server is installed with tcp wrapper.

In TCP wrapper you can specify which IP address is allowed to connect. Maybe the other host or PC using DHCP and the IP changed so previously he could get in but now couldn't.