Telnet behaviour via MTN LTE internet

CommsPlayer

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I configured an F5 firewall on the other side of the internet, making sure only specific ports are exposed to the internet. However, when I tested closed ports using telnet via internet, it appears as if telnet is successful, i.e. the CMD line window clears out when I hit (<ENTER>. This was tested via MTN LTE internet.

When I test via Vodacom LTE internet and Telkom LTE internet, closed firewall ports will cause telnet to time out with an error, as expected.

Via MTN LTE I seem to get successful telnet behaviour, even into arbitrary ports such as:

telnet www.google.com 12345

Can anyone else replicate this behaviour via MTN LTE internet?

Thank you.
 
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