problem with telnet on RHEL 4

[powell]

Hi,

I have a problem in logging thru telnet on RHEL 4 system . The o/p of rpm -qa | grep telnet shows the following,
telnet-0.17-31.EL4.3

Secondly when I run ping <hostname> command it gives me the following o/p,

ping rhel (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from rhel (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms
64 bytes from rhel(127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.067 ms
64 bytes from rhel(127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.065 ms

I am unable to figure it out why it is happening . Moreover this is a dual boot machine .

Regards
Powell

[likwid]

telnet is most likely not running because it is basically deprecated by ssh. Is there a reason that you want to use telnet over ssh?

[powell]

I do not want to use telnet over ssh . what are the steps needs to be followed to disable the use of telnet over ssh ?

Also the telnet server package ( telnet-server-0.17-31.EL4.3 ) is not present on my system .

[likwid]

By "telnet over ssh" I meant why would you want to use telnet rather than ssh. SSH does all that and more, and it's encrypted. If you want to use telnet I guess install telnet-server and it should be turned on. You can check by running

chkconfig --list | grep telnet

Most organizations do not even allow telnet anymore because SSH has eclipsed telnet in security and functionality.

[powell]

Thanks for the response . Could you please answer the second query which I had put forth regd the o/p of ping,

ping rhel (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from rhel (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms
64 bytes from rhel(127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.067 ms
64 bytes from rhel(127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.065 ms

Since this been a dual boot , the Windows machine shows the ip address (15.76.118.196 ).
But why is it the Linux machine show a different ip address?

[likwid]

127.0.0.1 is your loopback address. Your system's hostname should resolve to this IP address via /etc/hosts. It's normal operation.