dereck martin writes:
> You'd need to stop and start inetd... if you didn't that should fix
> the problem.  If you did, then I have no idea what the problem is.

well, some progress, but further embarassing admissions.  inetd was
not even installed on machine 1!  how that ever happened, i don't
know; it was supposed to be.   i should take better notes during
installation.  i know it's all listed in /tmp/install.log but . . .

that said (and corrected), telnetting from machine 2 to 1 now seems
almost to work, but closes before presenting the Login:

     Trying 192.168.0.3...
     Connected to deneb.moylan.com.
     Escape character is '^]'.
     Connection closed by foreign host.

similarly, rcping from machine 2 to 1 also fails, giving the following:

     rcmd: deneb.moylan.com: Connection reset by peer

both telnet and rcp work fine from machine 1 to 2.  /etc/hosts.equiv
looks the same on both.  hosts.deny, hosts.allow contain only comments
(although putting in host entries didn't help).  gotta be somthing basic.

still muddling along.
dan