Thanks for correcting my poor grammar ;-) To answer your question and the previous, there is no local firewall, and I intentionally included telnet in the list of services because I know that it is not enabled on this host. Really just testing to make certain I get the output I desire when a service is down.
I just don't understand the error that was being spit out. I don't see the concantenation that its referring to.

-c