"telnet" equivalent

[shai200]

I'm trying to connect to a library catalog which uses a "telnet" console to access the db.

In windows, just by clikcing the link telnet://207.236.161.62, it opens a telnet console and I can access the catalog.

How can I do the same with linux?
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[jjasghar]

you need to emerge telnet if you haven't got it installed. then all you have to do at a command prompt type telnet ip.addy.to.db and you shouldn't use telnet man, use ssh it's encrypted.
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[shai200]

thanks for the responses

when i'm using ssh, though, I go:

[nhaggin]

Is there an ssh daemon installed and running on 207.236.161.62? If not, you won't be able to ssh in, but rather than hanging ssh should be returning with "Connection refused."

I also presume it was trying to connect to port 22 and not port 2; if it is trying to connect to port 2, that's another part of your trouble, although again, there should be no services running on port 2 and the connection should be refused.
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[lwithers]

There's probably no ssh daemon running and some helpful admin has set up the firewall to drop packets rather than reply with an ICMP port unreachable.

[nielchiano]