[ale] running proftpd as a child of xinetd

[joh6nn at hotpop.com (joh6nn)]

hey all, i'm trying to run proftpd (1.2.10) as a child of xinetd 
(2.3.13), and not making much progress.  i've had proftpd successfully 
running as a standalone for a while, so i know i have a working .conf 
for that.  i switched the ServerType over to inetd already, so that 
shouldn't be it either

my proftpd conf for xinetd (which i cobbled together from various sites 
that didn't explain what any of this does, though for some of it i can 
guess) is as follows:

service ftp
{
         disable                 = no
         flags                   = REUSE
         socket_type             = stream
         wait                    = no
         user                    = root
         #groups                 = yes
         server                  = /usr/sbin/proftpd
         log_on_success          += DURATION USERID
         log_on_failure          += USERID
         nice                    = 10
         bind                    = 137.99.177.217
}


when i try to ftp in, i get "connection refused".

any thoughts?