Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

[lk-debian@bigears.solsoft.com (Lorens Kockum)]

In debian-user you wrote:
>
>One of my internet service providers (well actually, my university) only
>allows access to the internet via a proxy server.  So I can use netscape
>to ftp (and I presume use telnet though I haven't tried this).

I'd be surprised if you could!  One major advantage of
proxying+firewall is being able to stop users from telnetting out
and doing mischief around the world, while still letting them
do such mundane things like http. Think SMTP, for example. A
central mail-server is sort of a proxy...

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