On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 05:05:58AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Who uses telnet anyway? It's deprecated. Everyone uses ssh for any kind of > remote access.
Indeed. Yet: Quite many people surely do still use a telnet client to access various older/smaller devices, as well as online resources - in particular, in the field of astronomy, as it was brought up in last month's discussion elsewhere. Also online retro computers and BBSes. This means that some kind of telnet server is also still in use on those devices and in those places. Probably in most of those cases it is not one from InetUtils, but who knows. I suppose some astronomy site may have migrated their telnet gateway to a Debian or Ubuntu system. Alexander
