Why can't KA9Q telnet to AIX 3.1?

[Chip Salzenberg]

I've got a bit of a problem.  Our KA9Q telnet client can't seem to
finish option negotion when connecting to our RS/6000.

I flagged DEBUG in the KA9Q telnet client, and I get this:

    recv: do 24
    send: wont 24
    recv: dont 24
    send: wont 24

Then ... _nothing_.  Characters typed are echoed, but that's all, and
I think KA9Q is doing that locally.

The weird thing about this problem is that the above sequence also
appears (followed by negotiation of Echo and Suppress Go-Ahead) when
KA9Q makes successful connections to our SCO UNIX 3.2v2 box.

Our AIX 3.1 is quite new:

   -r-sr-xr--   1 root     system    103330 Nov 08 15:32 /etc/telnetd

So what's the deal?
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