HELP me with TelNet

You need to set up port forwading on port 23. At the moment, your firewall on your router (NAT setup?) is probably blocking connections on port 23.

Unfortunately, doing this will leave open your port 23 for other to pop in.

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also, What OS is each machine running?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

so you're trying to telnet FROM one of your local PC's (the home or pro) TO a machine on the Internet somewhere? If so, what does the config at the remote site look like?

BTW - details like this should really be included in the original post.

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

OK, now you're giving more useful details. Have you EVER successfully telnetted to your router? Which model is it? Maybe there's some config setting to enable/disable telnet?

BTW - if you're running any sort of server you can test whether telnet is working by telnetting to the particular port. e.g. if you're running an HTTP server you can type

TELNET XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 80

And the server will "answer" the telnet. For HTTP you can type "HELO" and you should get a reply. If you're not behind a firewall you can even try this to tomshardware.com like so:

TELNET www.tomshardware.com 80

type HELO and see if you get anything back

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what did you try to telnet to without the router?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

can you give some more details? Did you try to telnet to tomshardware.com port 80? or default 23? What was the error? Can you possibly cut and paste the session into a reply here?

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