On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:19:31AM +0800, Phil Maley wrote:
> For a long time I had our bbs set up so that incoming telnet
> connections would bring up a NODE response instead of the
> standard TELNET login. I had set this up by making the entries
> in /etc/services as follows:
>
> telnet 24/tcp
> node 23/tcp
>
> It worked fine until I upgraded the machine to RedHat 5.2. After that,
> telnet originating from the machine would try to access port 24 on the
> distant machine. It seems the telnet software on our box now checks
> /etc/services to see what port it should be using instead of assuming
> that it should be 23.
I think that is the correct behaviour; outbound connections should use
/etc/services too.
I think you can get the behaviour you want by modifying inetd.conf instead.
In /etc/services, make something like
realtelnet 24/tcp
Change the telnet entry in that file to call node, and add a realtelnet
entry to call in.telnetd as before.
Hamish
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