telnet connection was sometimes closed with error "Connection closed by foreign host".

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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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