IDS tcp listening port on RHEL 5

I tried different tcp port numbers (ex: tcp 6975; tcp 55001) for my new IDS 11.7 UC 1 GE to listen to on RHEL 5 but i'm not able to connect to it using OAT or even "telnet hostname portnum". service iptables is off /etc/services file entry looks good /etc/hosts file for machine looks good netstat -an shows it is listening to 127.0.0.1:portnum so what gives?? DISCLAIMER This transmission and the information contained herein and/or in any attachments hereto and/or in any attachments thereto is privileged and/or confidential and is intended ONLY for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, printing, copying, using or disseminating this transmission and/or any such attachments and any information contained in this transmission and/or in any such attachments. ANY unauthorized interception of this transmission and/or any such attachments is a violation of federal criminal law. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the transmission and all such attachments

On Nov 22, 12:53 pm, June Nebab LKINY <jne...@idealcut.com> wrote: > I tried different tcp port numbers (ex: tcp 6975; tcp 55001) for my new IDS 11.7 UC 1 GE to listen to on RHEL 5 but i'm not able to connect to it using OAT or even "telnet hostname portnum". > > service iptables is off > > /etc/services file entry looks good > > /etc/hosts file for machine looks good > > netstat -an shows it is listening to 127.0.0.1:portnum > > so what gives?? > > DISCLAIMER > > This transmission and the information contained herein and/or in any attachments hereto and/or in any attachments thereto is privileged and/or confidential and is intended ONLY for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, printing, copying, using or disseminating this transmission and/or any such attachments and any information contained in this transmission and/or in any such attachments. ANY unauthorized interception of this transmission and/or any such attachments is a violation of federal criminal law. > > If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the transmission and all such attachments Are there any error messages in the MSGPATH file when you bring the server online? With your current version I believe it is possible to get an engine online with no listener threads working. So onstat - shows the server in "ON-LINE" mode, but if you have no working listener threads, nobody could connect to the server. What protocol are you trying to use? Can you verify in onstat -g ath that there is some listener thread started, (assuming you are using soctcp you'd could do onstat -g ath | grep tcplst)? If you have a listener thread in the -g ath output, can what is it's stack look like (onstat -g stk <thread id>)? If you don't have any listener threads started, what does you $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts file look like, and again, were there any possible error messages in your MSGPATH file when the server was brought online? Jacques Renaut IBM Informix Advanced Support APD Team

June Nebab LKINY wrote: > I tried different tcp port numbers (ex: tcp 6975; tcp 55001) for my new > IDS 11.7 UC1 GE to listen to on RHEL 5 but i'm not able to connect to it > using OAT or even "telnet hostname portnum". > > service iptables is off > > /etc/services file entry looks good > > /etc/hosts file for machine looks good > > netstat -an shows it is listening to 127.0.0.1:portnum 127.0.0.1 is a ocal only ip address. You don't want to listen on localhost-ish ip - remote hosts won't be able to connect. > > so what gives?? >