[wplug] telnet

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Monday 06 October 2003 15:08, John Harrold wrote:
> Sometime in October Weber, Larry A assaulted the keyboard and 
produced:
> | If I use telnet to connect to a target system, I will get an error
> | "No route to host found" if the target system is not properly set
> | up.  After I correct the target I continue to get the same error
> | message until I restart Linux on my host system.  Is there a way to
> | reset telnet so I don't have to keep restarting Linux?
>
> telnet is probably started by inetd/xinetd. so
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart
> or
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd restart
>
> should do it.
>
> you'll have to be root to do this. if you are telnetting to a machine
> then su'ing to root, you should be really careful.

If you're using telnet over any untrusted network (the Internet, company 
intranet, etc), you're exposing yourself to sniffing attacks. Better 
use ssh - an encrypted alternative to telnet/rsh/rcp/ftp.

-A