telnetd and term type?

[Judy Halchin]

>We're having trouble connecting to our 6000s from our dial-in gateway,
>and it appears that it's due to the design of IBM's telnetd.  Normally,
>hosts receiving a telnet connection ask for a terminal type, but don't
>demand one.  Our gateways don't know terminal type (*lots* of things
>connect through them, processes included), so don't provide it, which 
>hangs the AIX3.1 (3003+) telnetd (since IBM _really_ wants a terminal
>type).

We saw the same problem here after going to level 3003.  We "fixed" it by
going back to the telnetd from 3001.

Judy Halchin
cfjph at eiu.edu