Is there a config file for telnet that's similar to .ssh/config?

Question

I constantly need to type some hostnames / IPs to telnet, and sadly they don't support ssh.

Is there a config file for telnet similar to ssh? I don't have admin access to change the /etc/hosts file.

Answer 1

telnet reads from ~/.telnetrc at startup, but that won't help you with typing long hostnames. For that you should make yourself some shell functions like this:

t1 () { telnet foo.bar.blat; }
t2 () { telnet crock.fook.ack; }
t3 () { ... and so on... }

Put them in your .bashrc, or .zshrc or whatever your shell reads at startup and then type t1 when you need to telnet to foo.bar.blat.