Re: telnet broken

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:08:07PM -0400, Alain Magloire wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > uh, suddenly telnet is completely broken.  On Linux it hangs on a connection
> > after printing one line of the welcome message, in the Hurd it segfaults.
> > I even got a connection refused at one time.
> > 
> > That is using the telnetd from GNU/Linux netkit.
> 
> Sorry, I got some difficulty to decipher,  you mean inetutils/telnetd
> is broken on Linux and segfauts on the Hurd?
> And with telnetd netkit it says connection refused?

I mean inetutils/telnet (not telnetd) is broken on Linux and segfaults on
the Hurd, trying to connect to telnetd from Linux netkit or inetutils
telnetd on the Hurd respectively.

I can't tell you if telnetd works fine, I didn't test it, except in
conjunction with the broken telnet on the Hurd.

> > I don't know enough about telnet to debug this right now, I suspect it is a
> > libinetutils bug anyway... maybe someone can take a look at this?
> 
> Did it work before on the Hurd? 8-)

Of course. 1.3.2 works fine, for example, and certainly some inbetween
versions did, too.

Thanks,
Marcus

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