[ale] telnet help

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I'm coming in on this kinda late, but why use telnet instead of ssh?
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Yu, Jerry wrote:
> check whether telnetd is running and listening at default port (23/tcp)
>            netstat -tln | grep 23
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Barry
> Rountree
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:17 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] telnet help
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 22 September 2004 07:01 pm, Barnes, Michael wrote:
> 
>>Both of the machines are on the same sub-net and as far as I can tell,
>>there is not a fire-wall involved. Is there a quick way to determine if I
>>am mistaken?
> 
> 
> All of these should be run on the server.
> 
> Can you telnet to 127.0.0.1?
> Can you telnet to the machine's real ip address?
> Anything in /etc/hosts.deny?
> Is telnet turned on in /etc/services?
> Is telnet disabled in /etc/xinet.d?[*]
> Does "iptables -L" show a firewall?
> Are you using the Kerberos version of telnet?  That may require additional 
> configuration.
> 
> And finally,
> 
> Is there a really, really good reason not to use ssh?
> 
> 
>>Thanks
>>Mike Barnes
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Barry
> 
> 
> [*] I don't know if there are any versions of telnet that use xinetd, but it
> 
> would be a likely candidate and won't take long to check.
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