[wplug] telnet

[Weber, Larry A]

Thanks,  this is just a PC connected directly to an embedded system.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alexandros Papadopoulos [SMTP:apapadop at cmu.edu]
> Sent:	Monday, October 06, 2003 3:16 PM
> To:	wplug at wplug.org
> Subject:	Re: [wplug] telnet
> 
> 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
> 
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