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telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

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I am using RHEL 6.0 and when i type the given command in terminal

telnet 127.0.0.1 6000

I am getting output as:

Trying 127.0.0.1...

telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

Why is this connection refusing?

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Jan 31 '14 at 7:32

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Timo

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Presumably, because there's nothing running on localhost that's listening on TCP port 6000. –

Shadur

Jan 31 '14 at 7:47

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Because there's nothing listening there. If you'd expect an X server to answer, you'll need to tell it to
enable TCP (remove the -nolisten tcp for instance, or add -listen tcp for those that don't listen on TCP by
default).

But if you don't need your X server to be accessed directly over the network (other than
tunnelled/proxied over ssh), it's probably wiser to leave it there.

You can connect to your X server with a Unix domain socket instead. For instance (for :0) with:
socat - /tmp/.X11-unix/X0

Which would be the equivalent of:

socat - tcp:localhost:6000

Or (as you're on Linux), with an abstract domain socket:

socat - abstract:/tmp/.X11-unix/X0

Other reasons why you can't talk to your X server would be if it's listening on a different port (6000 is for
the :0 display) or not at that address or the wildcard address, or on a different network protocol (IPv6
instead of IPv4), or if there's a firewall rule rejecting connections there.

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Jan 31 '14 at 7:43

Stéphane Chazelas

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