Whenever I telnet into my Mac running NetBSD from a machine running Mac OS, SunOS, or Solaris, I have severe terminal emulation problems. Whats wrong?
From Scott Reynolds (scottr@og.org): This is a pretty well-known problem, and stems from the fact that Sun’s telnet (and HP’s, at least up to HP-UX 9.x) is based on very old, and broken, code. There are two workarounds for this: (a) get new telnet source from ftp.cray.com, compile, and install it on the Sun, or (b) add “-k” to the entry in inetd.conf for telnetd. The former solution is preferred; the latter is a kludge that will help the situation, but you will probably find other strangeness coming from “good” telnets. Presumably, the Mac version of telnet suffers from a similar problem. Using rlogin instead usually works for me, but I’d recommend using ssh if it’s available.
