telnet star wars not working. its saying 'connection lost' and something about cannot connect to port 23

There has to be a service running on the host that you are telneting to that is listening for connection requests on port 23.

Confirmed it's down for me too.
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Trying 94.142.241.111
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable

Just give it time and see if it comes back up.

ive tried it on osx and it didn't work either.

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