Can't telnet to freebsd box

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Frank wrote:

> I have installed freebsd 6 on the pc and connect to the LAN. from 
> freebsd box, I can ping other pcs on the LAN and other PCs(Windows XP) 
> can ping freebsd box as well. But I can't telnet to freebsd from other 
> PCs (Windows XP). Also I have tried telnet from freebsd box to itself 
> and also couldn't make connection. Anyone know what problem could be?

Because telnetd has some serious security concerns, FreeBSD has it 
disabled by default.

Use ssh instead by putting sshd_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf and 
downloading PuTTY for your Windows systems:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA