all connections refused

[stan]

well it's offical gentoo seems to be refusing all connections
be it telnet ssh or ftp.

how do I change this?

[Zu`]

Outgoing (from the Gentoo box) or incoming (to the Gentoo box) connections?

Gentoo doesn't have ftp/ssh/telnet running by default, have you manually set up these services?

Are you running any kind of firewall (iptables?), did you install a firewall script or added firewall rules manually?

[Naan Yaar]

Networking related. Moving.

[stan]

connections coming into the gentoo box are activly denied..... and I have iptables running but it's nothing more than a simple ipmasq rule set also I have ssh running on the gentoo box because I can ssh from it to other boxes (although this doesn't nesicarilly mean it would work the other way)
and I have proftpd set up (possibly incorrectly) this actually all came about trying to set up proftpd... anonymous connections are droped.... user account connections are droped....

[Naan Yaar]

- Are the daemons running (did you do the rc-update add step and reboot or do /etc/init.d/<daemon> start)?
- Can you connect from the same box?
- If you do:

[stan]

no dump..... netstat -lp | grep ssh just puts me back at prompt.

also the proftpd deamon has been started.