telnet is not available by default on a higher version of CentOS/RHEL and MacOS. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get it installed. When you run telnet, you will notice the following error. To fix this, you need to install telnet and it’s easy.
Installing telnet on CentOS/RHEL
Log in to the server as root Run the below command to install
You can also use DNF if using CentOS 8. It’ll download the package and install and show you the complete confirmation below. Now, you can run telnet Have fun!
Installing telnet on MacOS
To install telnet on MacOS, you need to have/install Homebrew.
Launch terminal and run the below command to install Homebrew (skip if you already have)
It will take a few seconds and once done; you will see the success message.
Great, its time to install telnet using brew command
It will download and install the necessary package. Once done, rerun the telnet.
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