telnet on local LAN question

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 06:11 -0500, Rick Sewill wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:04:57 AM Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> > Greetings
> > 
> > I am trying to figure out how to get communication between my F14 boxes
> > on a local wired LAN. The best test case I can come up with to prove
> > that I don't know what I am doing wrong is telnet.
> > 
> <...snip...>
> > Ping works great between all of the machines for both <otherX> and
> > <otherX>.localdomain, lists the 192.168.10.x address like a happy camper
> > should
> > 
> > But a telnet <otherX> 25 or telnet <otherX>.localdomain 25 fails.
> > 
> > I can't tell if I need to add information about the other machines
> > somewhere else on <name> or if they really are known but something is
> > blocking it.
> > 
> 
> You didn't say if you could telnet locally to your local host:
> Does this command work: telnet localhost
> If not, the telnet service needs to be enabled/started.
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you obviously missed that he was trying to telnet to port 25

Please use greater care in understanding what the OP is trying to do
before chasing him down a useless path. He doesn't need telnet server.

Craig


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