do telnet-clients not connect() ?

[Alexander K]

hello!


i am trying to make a socketserver.
dunno for what yet, mainly learning i guess.
i am on a linux(2.2.16) system with python 1.52.

so, i open a socket like this:

-> s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
-> s.bind(hostname, port)
-> s.listen(2)
-> (peer, address) = s.accept()

and then i can start another pythonprogram and connect() to that
port. send() and recv() work fine too.

so i telnetted to host:port to see if it accept() 'ed that.
it didnt.
after the telnetattempt i ran netstat and saw that s was still
in LISTEN mode.

howcome?
telnet communicates on TCP, right?

and surely it must make a connect() of some kind?
but why wont my script notice?

  tia / alex k

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