>I've seen some very bizarre behaviour from telnetd on NetBSD,
>particularly with the NCSA Telnet program.   I'm pretty sure most of
>the lossage is in NCSA telnet, but there's definitely somethig about
>4.4bsd telnet (this happens with BSDI too, for example) that makes it
>behave really badly.

Have y'all tried the -k option to telnetd?  (kludge linemode support).  I've
found it very useful for fixing problems like this when telnetting from some
systems (namely suns).  It's in the man page.

--Ken H.