SUMMARY: Solaris, ftp Connection refused, with NIS+

From: Neal R. Dalton (nrd@XOX.com)
Date: Wed May 29 1996 - 08:03:24 CDT


On Tue, 28 May 1996, Neal R. Dalton wrote:

> I installed a couple Solaris machines. After I had them installed I
> needed to make some changes (addresses and domain name), mostly NIS+ and DNS.
> I tried to update the NIS+ by hand and configured the DNS.
>
> I can use nslookup, but the commands are using DNS. And ftp to a numeric
> address gives me "ftp: connect: Connection refused". Telnet is just fine
> with numeric addresses.

I forgot to mention that the other machine, that I didn't mess with
worked fine.

Well thanks to Steve Phelps <steve@epic.co.uk>, who walked me through
the obvious. And I found the obvious problem, that I didn't see the
first 10 times.

There was a extra ftp in the /etc/services file on the data port. This
really messed up the system. I deleted the line, switch the
/etc/nsswitch.conf line for services to have files first and rebooted.

Everything started working, including dns.

Strange. I really didn't mess with the services file. I don't know how
it changed.

Also thanks to:
 Dharminder Dargan <dargan@dubai.omnes.slb.com>
 Daniel J Blander <Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.com>



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