[lug] telnet problems

[Jim Buzbee]

One thing you can easily try is to take tcpd out of the equation, i.e.
change

'telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd 
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd'

to 

'telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root  /usr/sbin/in.telnetd'


Of course this decreases the security of your system. I've had issues
before with tcpd trying and failing to do a reverse lookup on the
connecting IP.  If the lookup fails, the connection is refused.

Jim