Telnet notworking

[Noble Sebastian]

hi , friend
I cant access to telnet my server , but server ping , console also working
any one tell help me ....

thanks

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

what is the error it is giving.?

[Steven Schweda]

"I cant access" is not very helpful. What
did you do, and what happened when you did
it? Actual commands and actual error
messages are more useful than vague
descriptions.

[Fabian Briseño]

Hello.

As the above posts suggest we need more information in order to help you.

Check your var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file

too see if anything is displayed there.

[Noble Sebastian]

hi ,
thanks

connecting 121.0.0.4 .....
then disconnecting

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

hi,

if ping is successfull then the host is available..

Check your /etc/inetd.conf file if the telnet service is uncommented

[Fabian Briseño]

when did you started having this problem ?

Did you patch the system recently ?

Is this system newly configed or not ?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

There are some basic things to check even with the scant information provided.

On the server you are tyring to connect to, presumably at its console.

tail -f /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

Then try and telnet.

If anything shows up on the log its not a networking issue. If nothing shows up check with networking or check the networking on the target system. Make sure it has link and can ping other hosts.

vi /etc/inetd.conf

Make sure the telnetd daemon is not commented out. If commented by a hash, uncomment and restart inetd.

inetd -c

or inetd -k;inetd

Consider using ssh, part of secure shell. A lot of shops are dropping telnet and using ssh because authentication and data stream are encrypted.

SEP