# Telnet

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/telnet/20892>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 16, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/telnet/20892 "2016-03-16T18:48:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Vivek\_Raj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dbc845/32.png) [@Vivek\_Raj](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vivek_Raj)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/telnet/20892/1 "2016-03-16T18:48:53Z")

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Can any one say how to do telnet using ansible

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**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/telnet/20892/2 "2016-03-17T12:14:44Z")

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You cannot at this time. If someone REALLY wanted to, you could write your own connection plugin for this, however I seriously recommend against doing so.

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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Redling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@Benjamin\_Redling](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Benjamin_Redling)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/telnet/20892/3 "2016-03-17T14:38:41Z")

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If you just want to use telnet to check a service you could do something  
like this:

# req. ansible 2.0, python \>=2.6, pexpect \>= 3.3