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telnet and ftp services inactived (after Mandrake 7.0 update)

I recently upgraded to Mandrake 7.0. During the
upgrade there's a question about what level of
security you can choose. The options are "low", "medium", and "high". I chose high, but afterwards discovered that medium is the recommended level.

Now, I can't telnet or ftp into my computer, even though inetd.conf contains the following 2 lines:

ftp     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd in.wuftpd -l -a

telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd        

When I try to ftp from another computer, I get:
ftp
ftp <hostname>
Connected to <hostname>.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

For telnet, it just fails to connect with:
Connected to <hostname>
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

Any ideas where should I look to find the problem? Is something inactivated that should be activated?

Thanks,
Dave
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You got it ... /etc/hosts.deny had a line denying ALL except localhost

Thanks!