A Unix command-line utility that facilitates simple two-way communications between a user and a server application listening on the specified port.

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Run script on remote machine via telnet (not SSH)

I need to somehow run a script which resides on a remote machine running Ubuntu. SSH or any other connection type that requires complex encryption is not possible. The client that will connect to the ...
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How do I setup multiple minicom / Cisco console server sessions without too much hassle?

I'm working on my CCNA and have 4 switches & 4 routers which make up my main lab. I bought two quad port USB to Serial (1 USB to 4 Serial) Adapters onto the ends of which I've attached 8 Serial ...
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Share Ubuntu between two computers and explore ubuntu

I have a Ubuntu 12.04 using the full hard disk in my laptop and a WUBI Ubuntu 12.04 using 30 GB in my desktop. Now I want to explore the networking features of Ubuntu. Like telnet and ssh. CLI etc etc ...
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Applied maintenance to Ubuntu 12.04 (upgrade to kernel 3.2.0-39); after restart my desktop is not responding

After applying maintenance via Update Manager, my desktop freezes after a few seconds. There are two links on ubuntuforums that mentions this as well. Is there anything I can do to correct this ...
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How to get telnet to localhost working?

I'm working on a local dev setup that requires the use of telnet (playing with setting up a MUD server) so please no feedback suggesting I use SSH as a more secure alternative. However, though I've ...
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Error in using HTTP through Telnet on terminal

To access www.ietf.org/rfc.html, I entered the following commands: telnet www.ietf.org 80 > log get /rfc.html HTTP/1.1 Host: www.ietf.org While I was in the midst of typing the 3rd command, the ...
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Error message using telnet

I am installing postfix. I configured the main.cf with the local ip 127.0.0.1. I created a contact@localhost.fr in my bdd (phpmyadmin). But when I send an email using telnet, I put : rcpt to: and I ...
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Telnet escape character , norwegian keyboard

Here's me in gnome-terminal, using telnet. As it says "Escape character is '^]' I've no idea which keys to hit, CTRL ] , CTRL Å , CTRL ^ does nothing. This is the keyboard layout of Norwegian ...
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What distro of linux is usually used in Dreambox [closed]

i want to be able to login to my dream box using console and store some of my files on the harddisk there i managed to login using telnet, but non of the disk commands are working like fdisk, ...
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cannot login to apache JAMES Remote Administration Tool

Is there some reason I get denied when trying: # telnet localhost 4555 JAMES Remote Administration Tool 2.2.0 Please enter your login and password Login id: root Password: root Welcome root. HELP ...
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connection refused on localhost 25 (apache James)

I was looking at a similar question, but all that I gather is that it could be a problem with the OS and not James precisely: thufir@dur:~/apache-james-3.0-beta4$ ...
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Telnet output file DOES NOT WORK Correctly UNDER Crontab

I'm using the Ubuntu 10.04.4LTS, and have Ganglia installed in my computer. I used to get the Gmetad data by typing: telnet localhost 8651 > /test/test.txt or made a .sh file to run it. After ...
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Ougoing telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

I am trying to telnet from Ubuntu server (running Maverick) on ec2 to another machine I have set up not on ec2 - we'll call it "server-x". Server-x is running an imap server and I am trying to test ...
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Cannot connect to local webserver

I can no longer connect to my local webserver With telnet. I get the message: "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host", it used to work perfectly and i have not made any changes to ...
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How do I prevent telnet from timing out?

Is there a way to disable a telnet session from my desktop to a server from timing out, ever. This should be done from the client if at all possible.
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How can I connect to the recovery console of a remote server?

So, my Ubuntu server's hard drive went into emergency read-only mode while I was in an SSH session. Thankfully, I was able to connect with SFTP and grabbed a few critical files, although, stupidly, it ...
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telnet refusing traffic on arbitrary port over network in 11.10

I have written a python script to listen on port 2626 and executed the script. proof that localhost is listening tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:2626 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN I can ...
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Local port forwarding

I'm trying to use eboard to connect to the FICS servers (http://www.freechess.org), but it fails because port 5000 is blocked (company firewall). However, I can connect to the server through the ...
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Can not telnet to 25 port

I can not connect any mail server using telnet through 25 port. I can connect with any web-server using 80 port.So i searched for my open port sudo nmap -sS -p 20-2550 localhost It shows: Nmap ...
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Why can't I telnet to MySQL?

When trying to connect to mysql server via telnet I am getting following error: telnet localhost 3306 Trying ::1... Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out ...