Re: telnet Help

From: Richard Adams (myspam_at_spam.com)
Date: 07/21/04


Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:26:24 +0200

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:09:53 +0000, Peter Jensen wrote:

> There are no telnet commands, as such. A telnet connection is just a
> direct TCP connection to port 23. The listening server usually connects
> the incoming connection to a login program that then spawns the users
> shell, while the client emulates some sort of terminal (like VT100).
> Whatever commands are available in the shell and the target environment
> is what you have to work with.

No telnet commands as such, whats that supposed to mean, how about the 17
options of the telnet command as per 'man telnet' how about all the extra
commands as per the escape command so on and so forth and not forgetting
you can telnet to "any" port not just port 23. There are many applications
which use telnet as a protocol but listen on other ports as well, or do
you mean you have never really used anything else than;
 telnet <host> <port>

Anyway as has been respectivly pointed out here by some, "dont use telnet"
for login shells, use ssh instead, there is more than just big brother
watching thesedays.

-- 
If the Linux community is a bunch of thieves because they
try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community
is built on organized crime.
Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
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