unable to connect

[David Blacka]

Blair Brown wrote:
>
> Does anyone know why it won't connect to anything but localhost?

My main guess is that you have local firewall rules in place.

Note that the tcp_wrappers code doesn't result in a "Connection 
refused", it just immediately closes the connection ("Connection closed 
by foreign host", typically).

Another explanation might be that rwhoisd is only bound to the loopback 
interface, however, unless you are running it from inetd/xinetd, rwhoisd 
itself doesn't have that feature.

You didn't say what your platform was, so I can't give you specific 
commands to run to check.

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David Blacka    <davidb at verisignlabs.com>
Sr. Engineer    Verisign Applied Research