Hi , telnet server, yes I know its a horrible thing and you all hate it as its a security risk !!! Msec lev med (3 ??)kernel 2.4.18-2mdk telnet client functions ,but the server is'nt or maybe is'nt package manager says its installed, This application cant be done with ssh , so its telnet !
I use the telnet server to redirect anything directed at 3 ports on this machine , to another machine behind the firewall. This was perfectly functional on 8.1, and I have the same xinetd.d scripts and firewall scripts running. Its not a secutrity risk to me !! Could someone tel me how to get round what ever has been added, to disable it . My actions so far are to remove both telnet- server and client 1.2.2-16mdk and replace both with 1.2.2-11mdk which is the version with mdk 8.1...that use to work. I have now managed to get telnet to localhost to function, but still left with the xinetd redirects failing. firewalls have been disabled on both machines, and have no effect I can telnet to the other machine to the ports that are redirected to from this machine...that works. If I telnet localhost 8000 xinetd.d should redirect to the other machine on port 8000, What happens is that I get connection refused (errno 111)from the other machine. Its as if xinetd is adding something, but what I dont know and cant see on a tcpdump on the ethernet link between machines. So far this is the only thing I've found that dos'nt work.. I can use SNAT in iptables to do something similar, but its a pig to setup. TIA BR Richard
