Telnet: "Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed" on Windows 10 CMD

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Brief-Wishbone9091
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Telnet: "Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed" on Windows 10 CMD

Post by Brief-Wishbone9091 » 2023/04/13 05:21:29

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telnet 192.168.169.128
Connecting To 192.168.169.128...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed
I've read this post: https://superuser.com/questions/956021/ ... d-window-7

And followed everything written there. I am trying to connect to my vmware workstation pro centos 7 using telnet. I can ping the IP.

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ping 192.168.169.128

Pinging 192.168.169.128 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.169.128: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.169.128: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.169.128: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.169.128: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.169.128:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms
How to fix this issue?

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Re: Telnet: "Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed" on Windows 10 CMD

Post by TrevorH » 2023/04/13 11:42:56

Telnet is an awful insecure protocol that should never be used for anything other than problem determination and debugging. Use ssh like everyone else!
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

yrybb233
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Re: Telnet: "Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed" on Windows 10 CMD

Post by yrybb233 » 2023/05/06 04:23:55

use ssh
ssh -p 22 root@192.168.169.128

remember
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=23/tcp --permanent&&firewall-cmd --reload

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Re: Telnet: "Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed" on Windows 10 CMD

Post by Brief-Wishbone9091 » 2023/05/07 10:00:28

Thank you for the information, I'll use SSH. I was just trying to practice telnet btw.

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