in.telnetd problem with 9.2

From: teetime (sfoiles_1_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/30/05


Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:04:27 GMT

I'm experiencing a problem with telnet under SuSE 9.2. I have a local
lan that I use to access the 9.2 machine through telnet. The problem
I'm experiencing is, every so often when I try to telnet I get the
standard "Welcome to SuSE Linux 9.2..." but instead of getting the
Login prompt, I get "Connection closed by foreign host". If I simply
retry, I typically get the login prompt (although sometimes it takes
3 or 4 times).

I've never seen anything like this with earlier versions. PLUS, I've
tried this on two different computers with the same result.

I could move to ssh, but all computers are already setup for telnet,
plus it's only a private network.

Oh, also I went in and added a "-D options" argument, and while that
option was turned on, it never failed. I don't really want to run
that way permanently, but thought that was weird as well.

Any thoughts or input would be greatly appreciated.



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