No telnet in MacOS

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Hi tried to use telnet in High Sierra, and I noticed it does not come anymore with MacOS.

I also attempted to install it via MacPorts with:

$ sudo port install telnet
Error: Port telnet not found

But it did not work. What to do?

Best Answer

After investigating a little, I found from a ticket opened in the MacPorts bugtracker: telnet port request (High Sierra) about the lack of telnet, and that the needed package is inetutils.

So I installed inetutils with:

sudo port install inetutils

And know I already can use telnet.

PS. If Homebrew is your thing, you can also install telnet with:

brew install telnet
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