Re: telnet localhost

From: Steve Alpert (sra_at_newsgroups.nospam)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:21:37 -0500

John wrote:
> Absolute newbie question, when I type the follwing:
> telnet localhost
> I get the following error:
> Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on port
> 23: Connect failed
>
> Is this normal? If not, how do I resolve the problem, ping works and my
> hosts file maps localhost to 127.0.0.1

Do you really have a service or application listening on port 23? Could
it be some other port? Get a copy of tcpview from www.sysinternals.com
and see what is really listening on your box.

/steveA 

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