I have got telnet server running on a bsd target. I want to connect to this target from multiple other machines. Surprisingly it does not allow more connections.
I checked why and found it is not listening(listen) in a loop. So, I kinda fixed it. But I was wondering is there any specific reason why telnetd code is kept with single connection at a time? (I am allowed to connect to telnetd server from only one client for a particular port.)
(I know telnet is not a safe option. But I am having just fun on small embedded platform and getting things working is more imp than security at this moment.)
Thanks
Telnet is supposed to be launched by inetd. You need to configure inetd to do the listening for you.
The wikipedia article that I linked to explains how to do that.