localhost ports

[Mike Gorse]

He was talking about a mud server, as in a multi-user dungeon, not mutt as 
in the mail client.

Something like
netstat -tln
will also list open sockets.  It would be a good idea to check to make 
sure the program is actually listening where you think it is as a first 
step.

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Mutt doesn't listen for incoming mail. If that's what you think mutt is
> doing, you're wrong. There's no reason to concern yourself about any
> ports mutt might take. That's not what mutt is about.
>
> Re Festival, Your distro may have a script to launch festival server.
> But again, are you certain you're not laboring under a misconception
> about what that means?
>
> PS: To see open ports, run nmap.
>
> Janina
>
> Rynhardt P Kruger writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to play a bit with mud servers on my fedora box, but got a
>> strange problem.
>> When I run the mud, and connect to port 4000 where the mud is running,
>> telnet tells me connection refused. I also tryed to run the festival
>> server on port 1314 just to check, but I got the same error when trying
>> to connect to that port. I am, however, able to ssh into my computer
>> through port 22. What may be blocking all the ports except port 22? Is
>> it some iptables or uther network configuration thing?
>>
>> Thanks for any help in advance.
>>
>> Take care,
>> Rynhardt
>>
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