> Am 05.07.2019 um 11:26 schrieb Dr M J Carter <[email protected]>: > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 10:56:28AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > >> I’m surprised there is no telnet under standard macOS. > > I'm not: it, and FTP, are horribly insecure. The corresponding > server-end daemons are (or should be) turned off on most sites in the > interests of self-defence, and replaced by use of SSH. I’m aware of this of course. Nonetheless telnet is a useful tool when it comes to testing an SMTP connection or some other port. Not that I’m missing it for its excellent user friendlyness and intuitive commands. — Christoph ^] > >> Is there a macport? and if, what’s the package name? > > $ port search telnet > inetutils @1.9.4_11 (net) > Inetutils is a collection of common network programs, including ftp, > telnet, > rsh, rlogin, tftp and the corresponding daemons. > > -- > Dr Martin J Carter > Computer System Administrator > Astrophysics, University of Oxford
