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Re: telnet sucks



On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:35:48AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:31:06AM -0700, michael young muttered: --> i know
> i know...but i still would like to use it. i have telnetd installed,
> hosts.allow and deny dont have anything in them, /etc/inet.d shows telnet
> running bec. telnet works when the hostname/eth0 ip is used but not with the
> inet addr... I would like to telnet to work over the internet even if it's
> that insecure, obsolete, sucks...etc --> 
> 
> I use telnet all the time. I'd be very interested in hearing about a better
> alternative

    Insecure is the only good argument up there. ssh solves that. If you're
not worried about security, telnet is just fine.

    Mike

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"Pretty soon, massive bloat is the industry standard and everyone is using
huge, buggy programs not even their developers can love."
    -Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming

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