It is not recommended to use telnet as an answering daemon on your server.  Telnet

is inherently insecure, because passwords are sent as clear text.  Instead, you should

use SSH for connections. 



You will first need to obtain an ssh client.  There are several free

clients available for use.  One of the easier to use clients is Putty.  Putty can be downloaded

from the following link:



http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/


However, should you need to troubleshoot a connection using telnet, the package is installed

by default on most Linux, BSD, and Windows Operating Systems.  You merely need to

open a command prompt(or shell) and use the ‘telnet’ command.