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i have a unique telnet problem. I'm trying to set up a MUD on Mandrake 7.0. It uses port 4000 as it's telnet port. When I try to connect, I get connection refused. I can telnet normally into the box fine, just not to the MUD port. Is there something I have to do to enable telnetting on port 4000?
The MUD engine is a daemon just like sendmail or telnetd. If it bound itself to that port correctly, then regardless of any silly firewalling goop that mandy tried to do, you should be able to telnet to it from the machine itself on 127.0.0.1:4000. If that doesn't work, I'm skeptical that the mud daemon is actually running.
To have it running automagically from boot you'll have to add a line to /etc/services like:
where the something is whatever the executable for the muddaemon is. Then you should be able to telnet into it... I think. I've never done that either, and honestly very few people have. Offhand, what flavor of mud? LP, Diku? Tiny? kicking that habit nearly took me a year...
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