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November 12, 2021February 21, 2022

Install telnet, ftp on MacOS

telnet and ftp have been removed from Mac. While people shouldn’t be using insecure versions of
these protocols, I use telnet often to diagnose connections issues. The solution to this is to install
inetutils.


You can install inetutils using Homebrew or MacPorts, but I prefer compiling from source. It is more
straight-forward and does not require installing additional packages.

dowload your preferred version of inetutils from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/.

curl https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-1.4.0.tar.gz -o inetutils-1.4.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf inetutils-1.4.0.tar.gz

Compile and install inetutils.

cd inetutils-1.4.0
./configure
make
sudo make install

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These posts are notes for me. These are not guides and you should not use these instructions as step-by-step instructions without knowing what they do.

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