Can telnet port 80 but cannot ping!

[ccb at acm.org]

> Any idea what steps I should take to make these services available 
> on my server? I should mention that I chose the telnet and other
> modules during my installation of of my Linux.

Please do not enable telnet on your system.  Some idiot will use
it to give you a black eye.

Red Hat generally has telnet disabled even if you do make the mistake
of installing it.  Do a "man xinetd" to begin grappling with how to
turn on telnet if you absolutely must.

You may also need to rerun lokkit and punch a hole for telnet
if you selected one of the firewalling options.


Opening telnet and ftp are like dropping the soap in the wrong shower.

Get a look at ssh instead.

ccb