Okay, here is yet another Telnet mystery.......

I am currently running Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.2. After setting up my network, I can easily telnet from Red Hat machine into Mandrake box. I have checked the hosts.allow, hosts.deny, rc5.d file, rc3.d file, xinetd.conf file (noticed that Mandrake is using inetd.conf while Red Hat is using xinetd.conf)and also made sure that the /etc/services file did not have telnet #'ed out. I canno't telnet from Mandrake into Red Hat! I am thinking this is because of using both inetd and xinetd on two systems in same LAN. I did read that xinetd should not be used at this point but I thought this may simply be a preference of the author.

Anyway, I created following line in inetd.conf on Red Hat machine to try and synch with Mandrake inetd.conf:

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

No luck.

At this point I am ready to take Red Hat off and install someting else. If anyone knows what may be wrong, please enlighten me.

Thanks in advance for any help....

What happens if you type 'telnet localhost' on the Red Hat box?

I managed to figure out what the problem was.
Being the fool I am, I did not have the Telnet daemon running on my Red Hat box. I thought (foolishly) that it was installed by default.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

how did u start the telnet daemon?

Yup, From Red Hat 7.0 release, they started being more security conscious and don't activate telnetd by default if you choose any security level other than "none".

I made sure it was uncommentd in the /etc/services file.

I did not have to make any changes to /etc/rc.d files.

I can telnet into my Linux box now...

What do I need up and running so that I can telnet out from Linux.

when I try...
> telnet somehost.somedomain.sometld

....I get...
bash: telnet: command not found

I seem to have telnet installed, if I do a `rpm -qi telnet` I get a description of the package. Aside from the telnet server and daemon is there some sort of telnet client I need?

Thanks,

Big Bad Ben Nicolas