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For questions about Telnet, a protocol for bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication with remote hosts via virtual terminals. It is defined in RFC 854.

Telnet is a protocol for bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication with remote hosts via virtual terminals. It is defined in RFC 854.

Telnet provides no inherent security and so is becoming less commonly supported. On modern UNIX-like systems it is usually replaced with more secure and flexible SSH protocol.

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Bind telnetd to specific IP on AIX 5.3?

Is it possible to bind telnetd to a specific IP on AIX 5.3? I know telnet is evil. Unfortunately, we have to have it listening on one interface for a specific application, but I want to make sure that's the only interface/IP that it's listening…
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How to telnet a computer name?

I have a computer in the network with computer name: XP-201112453 Without knowing the IP, how can I telnet to access this computer? I tried: telnet XP-201112453 but terminal gives me "nodename nor servname provided, or not known" as if the syntax…
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how fix telnet at port 25 or 110 or 143 connection failed?

I installed third party application on my Windows 2008 server to turn it into a mail server (MDaemon)... I filled the info during its wizard very carefully without any changes in its options or preferences! I configured it's IIS to use webAdmin and…
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translate telnet trafic to SSH

I have a closed source windows tool I need to run, which has to connect to a remote machine. Problem is, the tool only has telnet functionality, while the remote host only accepts SSH2. Is there some easy way to set up some sort of forwarding…
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telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused

when I run '(sleep 1; echo flush_all; sleep 1; echo quit; ) | telnet localhost 11211' I get Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. OK Connection closed…
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Cannot remotely telnet to Port 25

On a rackspace cloud server, I opened up Putty and it WORKS if I do "telnet localhost 25" on the VPS, the postfix process is running as well However, if I try to telnet remotely like "telnet domain.com 25" it doesn't work, I've tried "telnet…
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Connection closed by foreign host

When I telnet one port of my server, it give me an error: "Connection closed by foreign host", anyone can tell the reason ? thanks!
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how to disable telnet services in windows servers

In my windows machine telnet services are set disabled in windows machine. But when you do: telnet localhost 25 still the SMTP listens. how can i set not to listen to the service?
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How to Telnet to Pop3 server?

I have an interview coming up and I want to play around with POP3 and SMTP protocol. I'm trying to login to my gmail's pop3 server account using Microsoft Telnet command line program but it's not working. I'm typing pop.gmail.com 995 into the…
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Connect to Apache times out randomly

We are trying to set up an Apache server on a remote machine, but we experience strange behaviour. Checking with telnet remote.machine 80, one of these things happen randomly: Connect and serve content normally (no delay) Connect after a long…
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SSH into Ubuntu Linux on a box without a static IP address

Basically, how do I do it? I'd like to connect to my home computer from work, but my internet is routed through my apartment building's network, so I don't have the static IP address I'm accustomed to having. How do I go about accessing my home…
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Cyrus IMAP: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

I'm working on setting up a Cyrus 2.2 IMAP server on Ubuntu Server 9.04. If I telnet from the server itself: # telnet localhost imap I get: * OK IMAP Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.13-Debian-2.2.13-14ubuntu3 server ready Which is what I should be seeing. If I…
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Reboot Zyxel router via Telnet

I've got a Zyxel P-661HW-D1, I was wondering if anyone knows how to reboot it via telnet? I can't seem to find the command... Thanks, Kieron
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retrieve gmail using telnet

How do I see the mails in my gmail inbox using telnet? I typed telnet pop.gmail.com 995 at the command prompt and it shows me a blank screen. No message confirming whether it is connected and after a few seconds, it goes back to the command prompt.…
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ssh-ing to a port

Consider the following two commands: create-smtp-message | ssh -p 25 serveraccount create-smtp-message | ssh serveraccount telnet localhost 25 According to my understanding of ssh(1), they should both do the same thing. Instead, the second will…
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