On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:28:13AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> Cisco gear contains the Debian telnetd? And if that's true, how would us
> releasing a DSA for it necessarily help all the Cisco routers out there.
> We're not talking about the general intelligence of using telnet (or, at
> least, that wasn't the initial topic of discussion), but rather the
> possibility of fixing security problems in the stock telnetd in Debian.
The question asked was "why is anyone still using telnet
when there is ssh". And I would say that Cisco and some
other gear are about the only reasons why anyone would
still make a connection with the telnet protocol (other
than for testing odd things... I used to use 'telnet foo 110'
to hand test my company pop server when someone had problems.
So no, I was not replying about Debian fixes, I was replying
to the general question of 'why telnet at all'.
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