<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 21/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim</b> <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:51 +1000, Lux Zhang wrote:<br>> I need telnet to access adsl server.<br><br>Really bad idea. Telnet is a really insecure protocol. If you can use<br>ssh, use it, instead.</blockquote><div><br>
I have no choice, the modem can only handle telnet<br><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> telnet server setup is right. telnet to that serevr within internal
<br>> networked PC is ok. but when to access it from a remote PC, it shows<br>> following error, try google around but can't find a clue. hope some<br>> one can offer help?<br>><br>> getnameinfo: localhost: Success
<br>> Temporary failure in name resolution: Illegal seek<br><br>Well, "localhost" always refers to the machine that you're already on.<br>Every machine sees itself as "localhost". You need a unique name, or
<br>address, to connect to a remote machine.<br></blockquote><div><br>I walked around and fixed this problem. <br><br>But with remote telnet I got this<br><br>[zhang@tring ~]$ telnet <a href="http://79.15.54.181">79.15.54.181
</a> 7777<br>Trying 79.15.54.181...<br>
telnet: connect to address <a href="http://79.15.54.181">79.15.54.181</a>: Connection timed out<br>
<br>In fact the server did show any response <br><br><br><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You need to pass the port that you're using (whether for telnet or ssh)
<br>through the ADSL modem/router to the computer running the server.<br><br>--<br>(This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's<br> important to the thread.)<br><br>Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
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