the cross epg log states the below which may be related to what you suggested with the telnet settings
10/12/2015 20:18:40 SIFTeam CrossEPG Downloader 0.6.2 (svn 268) (c) 2009-2011 Sandro Cavazzoni (
crossepg - An EPG for enigma2 based dvb receivers - Google Project Hosting)
10/12/2015 20:18:40 This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
10/12/2015 20:18:40 Interactive: OPEN cmd received
10/12/2015 20:18:40 EPGDB opened (root=/hdd/crossepg)
10/12/2015 20:18:42 Clearing old aliases...
10/12/2015 20:18:42 Loaded 0 aliases
10/12/2015 20:18:42 Adding new aliases...
10/12/2015 20:18:42 Completed
10/12/2015 20:18:42 Interactive: OK action sent
10/12/2015 20:18:42 Interactive: DOWNLOAD cmd received
10/12/2015 20:18:42 No more url available
10/12/2015 20:18:42 Error downloading/parsing channels file
10/12/2015 20:18:43 Interactive: DOWNLOAD cmd received
10/12/2015 20:18:43 HTTP Get (host:krkadoni.com, port:80, page:skyuk.headers.db.gz)
10/12/2015 20:18:43 Can't resolve host
10/12/2015 20:18:43 Error downloading file
404 - File or directory not found.
10/12/2015 20:18:43 Interactive: DOWNLOAD cmd received
10/12/2015 20:18:43 No more url available
10/12/2015 20:18:43 Error downloading/parsing channels file
10/12/2015 20:18:43 Interactive: WAIT cmd received
10/12/2015 20:19:43 Interactive: QUIT cmd received