telnet is a terminal communications program. used to open a terminal session on a remote system. telnet is a command you can use on the commandline
ie : [u51847@penguin u51847]$ telnet kidst500 kidst500 is a system on our local network that supports telnet sessions. You usually have to have a userid unless the remote system supports anonymous sessions. Normally you wouldn't want to telnet to www.something.com because that is a webserver. However you can try this "telnet www.something.com 80" that tells the telnet software to use port 80. You can see what a http session looks like. One caveat is that telnet is insecure. It passes userids and passwords as plaintext. If you are looking for security, use ssh. Also, try out your man pages ie: [u51847@penguin u51847]$ man telnet -----Original Message----- From: cr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Telnet This probably sounds ridiculous to you all, but what's Telnet (as in "Telnet to www.goodstuff.org") and what application (in Gnome or KDE?) could I use to do it? I've used browsers/ftp/mailreaders/newsgroups but so far as I know never 'telnetted'. chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
