hi guys , i've tried to telnet to a shell account on my RedHat 8, but in the terminal it says .....
trying to connect to ...........
then connection to host is refused !

what does that mean , i can telnet to the same host from windows telnet , btw i didn't open any special terminal shell or something, i just runned my usual terminal so am i missing something

or is it maybe something with the connection ?

plz help as i must really use telnet alot

you probably are being blocked by a firewall. Or telnet is not running as a service,

Use ssh instead, and if your on a windows box, go find a utillity called putty.... you'll love it. This also is better for security as your connection is encrypted,

Hope that helped

you can use ssh to di everything you could with telnet, without worrying about hackers.

ssh hostname (return)

or ssh -l username hostname

dont use telnet, telnet sends your password over the network in plain text, wide open. anyone with a downloadable packet sniffer (some versions of linux come with ethereal) can see your password information and it actually displays it as:

user: Username
pass: password

(i've see it done).


instead use ssh. if you need an ssh client for windows, download putty:

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/.../x86/putty.exe

no installatoin required, just put taht on your desktop and you can use that to connect to your Linux system.


to ssh from linux to linux:


ssh user@host

example, if u are trying to ssh to you linux box at 192.168.0.3 and login as the user "tux" then u would type:

ssh tux@192.168.0.3

yup yup yup

u mean guys , that i can't use telnet with a bash ?

and btw how can i run telnet as a service?

can i connect to a remote system using telnet from typing the command telnet XXXXX.XXX in the regular terminal
in a bash shell ??

and if a telnet isn't secure
what is the best alternative in UNIX ?

well when i read the posts i found the prefered service is the (putty)

but sorry i really can't understand why it doesn't connect
while it does in windows


offcourse this does not give any credit for MS (hehehehhee )