Telnet Server in Perl

sams has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a perl script which needs to pretend to be telnet server (running on UNIX). Inetd will handle redirecting STDIN and STDOUT no problem, but I need to be able to handle the telnet spec (well, basics including "noecho" will do) which is something which someone has probably written a perl module to do, but which I can't find.

Anyone know of one, or have any suggestions?

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RE: Telnet Server in Perl by perlcgi (Hermit) on May 12, 2000 at 13:51 UTC
Is NET::Telnet what you want? perlcgi	[reply]
RE: RE: Telnet Server in Perl by ZZamboni (Curate) on May 12, 2000 at 17:21 UTC
I think Net::Telnet is only for the client-side connection. A search on CPAN did not reveal much that indicates a telnet server already exists. So a good place to start would be the Telnet specification, in RFC854. See the "See also" section of the Net::Telnet documentation for more pointers. --ZZamboni	[reply]