Ever since I did some major upgrading of my Debian box to potato, telnet seems to be screwed, though it is configured properly and worked before. It's the classic problem:
bash-2.02$ telnet localhost Trying 192.42.172.1... Connected to HAL. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. There is a 2 second hang or so before the Connection closed message. Ftp is working perfectly. In /etc/services I have: telnet 23/tcp In /etc/hosts.allow (redundant, but just making sure) ALL: 127.0.0.1 ALL: localhost ALL: HAL In /etc/inetd.conf telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd I've rebooted just to make sure things were right. So what's up? Christopher