tftp server problem

[David L. Gehrt]

> Steven Ringwald wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 18:16 +0100, adel.essafi wrote:
> >> Hi list
> >> I have a problem with tftp server on FC4.
> >> I have installed the server as the documentation suggests.
> >> after restarting the server, I can t connect to the ftp server :(
> >> can you help please
> >>
> >>
> >> [root at localhost ~]# service xinetd restart
> >> Arrêt de xinetd :                                          [ 
> >> OK  ]
> >> Démarrage de xinetd :                                      [ 
> >> OK  ]
> >> [root at localhost ~]# ftp localhost
> >> ftp: connect: Connection refused
> >> ftp>
> >> ftp>
> > 
> > Did you alter the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp file to have "disabled" set to 'no' 
> > (so that it runs???)

here are  two things here.  Tftpd  and ftpd daemons  listen on different
ports  and are different  things altogether.   More importantly  tftp is
really insecure  and should be avoided  if possible.  If  avoiding it is
not possible access  to the daemon should be  restricted to the smallest
and most trustworthy  set of client systems.  Offhand I  can think if no
real use for tftp.  A long time  ago we had to have a tftpd available to
allow Xterms to download their boot image it was worrisome.

dlg