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From: Nick Rout (nick@rout.co.nz)
Date: Thu 24 Jul 2003 - 14:22:43 NZST


not if you are telnetting to the smtp or imap ports, in that case the
smtp daemon or imap daemon answer telnet's connection and telnetD has
nothing to do with it.

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:30:11 +1200
Rob <mowgli@clear.net.nz> wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 21:52, Donald Gordon wrote:
> > Enabling telnetd only means that telnetd will listen on the telnet port
> > (23).  You don't need to do so in order to initiate connections with
> > telnet.
> > 
> > donald
> 
> Yes, but to telnet to a machine that machine must be running a telnet
> server (telnetd) and be listening for telnet requests.
> -- 
> Rob Stockley
> Manawatu
> New Zealand
> 
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