telnet connection was sometimes closed with error "Connection closed by foreign host".
Issue
- Sometimes, telnet connection was closed with error "Connection closed by foreign host".
- For example:
# telnet 127.0.0.1 23
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
Kernel 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64 on an x86_64
Connection closed by foreign host.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- telnet-server-0.17-73.el8.x86_64
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