Not able to telnet to 9922 port

Hi All,

I am using RHEL 5.1 and am facing one problem.
when i do a netstat -an | grep 9922

its showing (hostname):9922 LISTEN

but when i telnet as
telnet localhost 9922

its showing me

But when am telneting to the same hostname its connecting.

telent hostname 9922

its connecting
and showing connected.

My question is why am not able to use localhost instead of actual host name if am doing telnet from the same machine.

I have all required entries in /etc/hosts.. entries are:

Thanks,
-Ricky

Here's a wild guess: when an app opens a port, it gives two pieces of info: the port number and the IP address. The app then listens to that port only on that IP address. I suspect that the telnet daemon is listening on the host's IP address (192.x.x.2), and not on 0.0.0.0 (which means listen on all IP addresses) or 127.0.0.1.

So then how I'll enable it to listen on all ports.

If there any config changes I need to make.

As the same configuration was working on RHEL4.x

And also I start my server always with bind option as -b 0.0.0.0

dont know then why its not binding to all .

Thanks.
-Ricky

Wait a minute, what application are you running that is taking a "-b 0.0.0.0" argument? So far I have been assuming you are trying to connect to the telnet daemon.

Its my Java application which has webservice port 9922 deployed on Websphere 6.1

I used to check whether the port is accepting or not by telnet to tat port.
In my deployed application config file i mentioned localhost as agenthostname and webserviceport as 9922
so all calls goes like localhost:9922/blah format.

I'm using localhost instead of hostname because if i use localhost then i can copy paste the same config file to different machines in case of cluster rnv. once config file gets generated.

it was a regular practice for us till RHEL 4.x.x but i dont know why the same is not working in ver.5.

My question is if I'm getting the port and hostname listening then why i cant connect through localhost and the same port number.(min localhost should redirect to actual hostname as this all was working in previous RHEL versions)

Now the 2 work arounds are: ( Both works but i dont recomend):
1st one :I have to give hostname instead of localhost in my Apps config file. (Machine dependent config file cant do a copy paste to all machines)
2nd one: I have to edit the etc/hosts file and put hostname entry just before the localhost entry like

I dont recomend both work arounds.

Thanks.
-Ricky

[ November 05, 2008: Message edited by: Ricky Boxon ]

1. Use netstat -ln to determine whether the port is accessible. Normally localhost references would route through the loopback device.

2. Check iptables to make sure it isn't blocking. Out of the box, the stock RHEL iptables firewall setup should allow unlimited access from localhost, but if someone deleted that rule, you'd have a problem.

Checked both.

Made a netstat -ln | grep 9922

Firewall is disabled.

All accept.

I dont know what is wrong.. :roll:

Thanks,
-Ricky
[ November 06, 2008: Message edited by: Ricky Boxon ]