Re: Connection closed by foreign host.

[Mike Orr <mso@jimpick.com>]

Perhaps telnet is working properly but something else is causing your
login shell to exit immediately. 

I get a similar response, not with telnet, but with script.  I would get
"Script started, output file is typescript" and then it would immediately
exit with "Script done, output file is typescript".  This happens with
bash at the console, but it does not happen in an rxvt, and it doesn't
happen with zsh at all.  I don't notice it anymore since I use zsh all the
time now, but a quick check revealed that it's still doing that. 

Try putting an "echo Hello telnet world" as the first line of you .bashrc
(or whatever shell initialization file you use), to verify whether your
telnet session gets at least that far.  If it doesn't, try switching login
shells and see if it that works. 

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