I think I speak for everyone when I advise discretion against using FTP
and Telnet.

You can use SSH and SFTP instead.

$ man ssh
$ man sftp
$ man scp

If you happen to be stuck using a Windoze client, open source ssh client
at:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/


On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 psapprich@mindspring.com wrote:

> I've recently installed NetBSD 1.5 i386 on a number of machines at work. I am having problems with telnet and ftp.
> I am getting 'connection refused' responses. Help!

This is due to an ICMP message "service unavailable".  I.E., the service
is not listening in inetd.

>
> PA
>
>
>

--Brian

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