Can't telnet to freebsd box

Chris Maness chris at chrismaness.com
Sun Mar 19 02:03:12 UTC 2006


>
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank
>
>
telnet is not enabled by default.  Uncomment the telnet line in 
inetd.conf and /etc/rc.d/inetd restart



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