telnet to localhost just times out

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Hi guys

I have installed 2.9.49 and trying out a few things but one issue is starting to get annoying. Whenever I try to telnet 0.0.0.0 or even the IP of the ether1 the telnet screen just says ‘Trying 192.168.50.2…’.

If I reset the system, then it works. What could I be possibley doing wrong that would cause this?

BTW , New Terminal works fine and telnet from my PC also works.

Thanks

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Don’t use 0.0.0.0, that isn’t the IP address of localhost; try 127.0.0.1 instead. As for telneting to the IP address of ether1, you might have a firewall filter rule blocking the traffic. Try adding an ‘allow’ rule in the input chain for a source address of your ether1 IP.

There might be something else that is causing your trouble, but give that a try.

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make sure that /ip service telnet is Enabled.

or as roadrunner said theie should be some firewall rules

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Ok I added this line to the filter;
chain=input action=accept dst-address=192.168.50.2 dst-port=23 protocol=tcp

But I thought that this original line would have accepted it;
chain=input action=accept in-interface=bridge1 src-address=192.168.50.0/24

Thanks to roadrunner and ashish.