Can telnet port 80 but cannot ping!

[Ali Taalebi]

CCB;
Thanks for your helpful comments.
Actually, my plan has been to use ssh from the beggining.
I just needed to use telnet as a trouble shooting tool temporarily.
Now that I have got my ssh working I won't enable telnet.

>>Ali


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   > Any idea what steps I should take to make these services available 
   > on my server? I should mention that I chose the telnet and other
   > modules during my installation of of my Linux.

   Please do not enable telnet on your system.  Some idiot will use
   it to give you a black eye.

   Red Hat generally has telnet disabled even if you do make the mistake
   of installing it.  Do a "man xinetd" to begin grappling with how to
   turn on telnet if you absolutely must.

   You may also need to rerun lokkit and punch a hole for telnet
   if you selected one of the firewalling options.


   Opening telnet and ftp are like dropping the soap in the wrong shower.

   Get a look at ssh instead.

   ccb