Re: telnet2

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

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On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
>> Sendmail listens on port 25, Apache listens on port 80, ftpd listens on
>> port 21, telnetd listens on port 23. You must take positive steps to make
>> these daemons listen on alternate ports. It may be a config file change or
>> it may involve editing a Makefile or the source code and recompiling. They
>> will each listen on their default port unless you somehow tell them
>> otherwise.
>
>Well, I am already using ports 23 and 24 for telnet on several other
>machines. That works fine.  But on this ONE machine I must have
>forgotten to do something as port 24 is not recognized.
>
>So - if I have /etc/services file with telnet2 port 24 installed, and a
>new entry in etc/xinetd/telnet2 - and things have been started using
>chkconfig, what else is there to do to have port 24 working?? Have I
>forgotten something.

It sounds like you have everything covered, but obviously somehting has
been missed. I've never setup telnet on an alternate port though, so I
can't give any pointers.

Tony
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