Cannot access host through telnet after a reboot

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Issue

  • I had to restart the host for maintenance purpose and after that I cannot access the host through telnet
  • I'm seeing the following message in the /var/log/messages file
xinetd[1971]: Number of per source instances is invalid: ULIMITED [file=/etc/xinetd.conf] [line=28]
xinetd[1971]: A fatal error was encountered while parsing the default section. xinetd will exit.
xinetd[1971]: Exiting...

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.5

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