06-23-2008
behaviour by design
hi. this is behaviour by design in the server machine. What's happening is that the sun server that is not letting you in has a /etc/hosts.allow (and/or a /etc/hosts.deny) file that specifies rules telling it whether it should let a connection in depending on the connecting user/hosts/domain/network etc...
Normally, hosts.allow and hosts.deny are only checked when a program calls hosts_access(). By default, sshd and other programs do check the files, but not daemons like in.telnetd and ftpd, because these are services handled by inetd and by default inetd doesn't have tcp_wrappers on. The sysadmin must have enabled tcp_wrappers to telnet or to the whole of inetd, and thus each connection gets run through the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny ruleset.
If you have a domain name change, maybe you are no longer making it through the rules in /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny so just update those.
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
tcpdchk
TCPDCHK(8) System Manager's Manual TCPDCHK(8)
NAME
tcpdchk - tcp wrapper configuration checker
SYNOPSIS
tcpdchk [-a] [-d] [-i inet_conf] [-v]
DESCRIPTION
tcpdchk examines your tcp wrapper configuration and reports all potential and real problems it can find. The program examines the tcpd
access control files (by default, these are /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny), and compares the entries in these files against entries
in the inetd or tlid network configuration files.
tcpdchk reports problems such as non-existent pathnames; services that appear in tcpd access control rules, but are not controlled by tcpd;
services that should not be wrapped; non-existent host names or non-internet address forms; occurrences of host aliases instead of official
host names; hosts with a name/address conflict; inappropriate use of wildcard patterns; inappropriate use of NIS netgroups or references to
non-existent NIS netgroups; references to non-existent options; invalid arguments to options; and so on.
Where possible, tcpdchk provides a helpful suggestion to fix the problem.
OPTIONS
-a Report access control rules that permit access without an explicit ALLOW keyword. This applies only when the extended access control
language is enabled (build with -DPROCESS_OPTIONS).
-d Examine hosts.allow and hosts.deny files in the current directory instead of the default ones.
-i inet_conf
Specify this option when tcpdchk is unable to find your inetd.conf or tlid.conf network configuration file, or when you suspect that
the program uses the wrong one.
-v Display the contents of each access control rule. Daemon lists, client lists, shell commands and options are shown in a pretty-
printed format; this makes it easier for you to spot any discrepancies between what you want and what the program understands.
FILES
The default locations of the tcpd access control tables are:
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny
SEE ALSO
tcpdmatch(8), explain what tcpd would do in specific cases.
hosts_access(5), format of the tcpd access control tables.
hosts_options(5), format of the language extensions.
inetd.conf(5), format of the inetd control file.
AUTHORS
Wietse Venema (wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl),
Department of Mathematics and Computing Science,
Eindhoven University of Technology
Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513,
5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
TCPDCHK(8)