On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Post, Mark K wrote:
> Have you considering completely scrapping telnet and using SSH instead?
> See recent threads about why telnet should not be used for any reason,
> any time.
Just to be nit-picky, the telnet *client* is still very useful.
A great number of other protocols are plain text and are secured
(when secured) by layering that on SSL or similar session cipher.
So you can use telnet (the client) for analysis, for example:
telnet <somehost> 7
telnet <somehost> 21
telnet <somehost> 25
telnet <somehost> 79
telnet <somehost> 80
telnet <somehost> 143
telnet <somehost> 608
...
It's the telnet *server* that most of us have long abandonned.
Telnet (the protocol, thus also the server) uses port 23.
-- RMT
