AIX

All,

I am using AIX 5.3.
while running the rsh command I am getting below error message.
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A remote host refused an attempted connect operation.
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.rhost file is updated with correct entry on both the servers. I.e.
Login ID Server name

in /etc/hosts file, entry for server name is there with correct IP address.

Please help me to understand where can be the issue?

Thanks,
Anshu

I believe the format of the entries in the .rhosts file should be
Servername LoginID

Make sure that you can resolv the hostname both ways. Meaning from "Host A" you can for example ping "Host B" and it returns what you expect and then ping from "Host B" to "Host A". The best I can remember it must be able to do a reverse lookup. So "Host A" info should be in /etc/hosts on "Host B" and "Host B" should be in the /etc/hosts file on "Host A". If you don't I would recomment having the shortname in the /etc/hosts file as well, for example:
10.1.1.1 testbox.foobar.com testbox

Not sure if you have a firewall between the two hosts, if so you might verify that rsh traffice is allowed between the hosts. Port 514 I think but could be wrong on that one.

Another good test if the entry in .rhosts might be the problem is, to just login via ssh from the box that tries to get access via rsh and do a

Code:

who am i

and check the hostname given in the last field surrounded by brackets. This is the name that should be placed into the .rhosts. If not necessary you can leave usernames out. Should work only anyway if you keep the UIDs on the systems the same for the user id.

Hi,
check if rshd is running - it might be commented in /etcd/inetd.conf (the shell entry) - if so uncomment and start it using

Code:

startsrc -t shell

Kind regards
zxmaus

Thanks for your kind help ..!!


Yes, .rhosts entry is with server name and then login ID
I am able to do successfull ping from both side.
entry for server name with IP address in there only in respective servers, means in server A /etc/hosts file, only server A entry there.
Suppose I have three server A,B and C..... then I am able to connect to server A and C and vice versa. but from server A or C, if I am trying to connect to server B I am getting "A remote host refused an attempted connect operation". In the same manner if I try to connect from server B to server A/C, I am able to connect but it takes more than expected time.

Any clue ..? please

In the past my rsh problems have been related to some sort of resolve problem. Verify what zaxxon suggested. I usually put the shortname and the fully qualified name in the .rhosts file to be safe.

The slowness from server B to server A/C kind of sounds like a those servers are having a hard time resolving Server B.

From server A/C try

Code:

host ServerB

and from server B try the same thing for server A and Server C. Maybe share the results here change the host names for security purposes. I wouldn't mind seeing the .rhost entries from each server as well. Maybe someone will notice something that is not right.

To check why your name resolving is so slow, you might want to post following outputs all from serverB which is having the problems:

.. and when posting, make sure using [code] and [/code] tags so it is readable for us, ty.

Code:

time nslookup serverA
time nslookup serverC

Code:

cat /etc/resolv.conf

Code:

grep -vE "^#|^$" /etc/netsvc.conf

Code:

grep "serverA|serverC" /etc/hosts

Code:

vmstat -w -t -I 1 10