<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/06/12 20:40, MR ZenWiz wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAE5C4C3yHVSuKY3qzsx+iT5VCQjcQnBAfBVHwqYWTasgXxY3XQ@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> Update: No, I can't telnet to it from itself. I tried installing ufw and gufw, but even with the "default" configuration I got from the Debian to-do list for Precise, it doesn't work. In fact, that configuration also blocks my samba shares (!). So I have no firewall running. I'm still kind of a novice with network stuff, even after all my years with Unix & Linux. (sigh) <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> When you ssh/telnet into a host, are you doing it by hostname or ip? If you are just doing it by hostname, try doing it by ip - some routers can be very glitchy (e.g. homehub 3) with assigning ip addresses to hostnames. </body> </html>