"Ciaran Costelloe" said:
> Just when I started to believe I was getting passably capable with Linux, it
> brought me back down to reality. Life was fine with Corel Linux 1 & 2, and
> various Red Hat's from 5.0 to 7.0. The universe changed when I installed
> Red Hat 7.1, however. This became apparent when I was setting up bind - the
> bind people (while apparently very competent) must be very bored - a new
> entrant called rndc greeted me. It did not greet me kindly, however, but
> with a very dismissive "Connection refused". On further investigation,
> Linux is in a very humpy humour - a friendly "telnet 127.0.0.1" gave a
> similarly dismissive "Connection refused".
Well, in RH7.1 telnet is disabled by default -- you have to pick out the
server RPM for it be installed.
Not sure about the bind thing though, I haven't run BIND on an rh71
machine yet, so I can't comment.
--j.
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