If you can ping a server, but can't telnet or ssh to it,
what could be the problem?
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Answer / sanoopnarayan
As far as Im concerned there are three chances...
1. Services (SSh, telnet) may be disabled.
2. Service ports (ssh:22, telnet:23) may be disabled.
3. System may be in single user mode(init 0. init 1, init S) .
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Answer / raviga006
That mean the server is Single user mod in.
Single user mod we can ping the server but we cant
telnet,ssh
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Answer / aasif
Might be the services for ssh and telnet is disabled.
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Answer / kiranraj
The issue could also be with the init.d deamon, please
start it and you would be good to go...:-)
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Answer / ikon
Just had same issue on my HP-UX servers, I fould that I
needed to set permossions on /etc/hosts and
/etc/nsswitch.conf to 644
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Answer / das
First thing is the server will be in the single user mode
other wise check the services by the /etc/services the prot
number are ssh 22 and telnet 23 by that u can the service
in server.
or svcsadm | grep ssh or telnet
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Answer / kkk
If you are trying to ping the server.but it cant telnet or
ssh to it.that mean the server is not accessible in the
network.in this situat eon we have to generat the ticket to
the team.then we have check with the normal commands like
#netstat -rn
#uptime
#ping servername
take the abow information in the copy.and start the console
login procedure to resolve the issue .and we have to fix
the issue. it takes long procedure to put the server in the
online.
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