Re: Telnet was Re: G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...)

[Christian Liendo]

I am well aware.. However not everything has netcat. But many things
have a simple telnet client.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Sean Conner  wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Christian Liendo once stated:
>> Agree. It's quite easy to telnet to a port to see if you get a response.
>> Do it a lot.
>
>   The kids are using nc (netcat) these days.  It supports both TCP and UDP.
>
>   -spc
>

Re: Telnet was Re: G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...)

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Christian Liendo once stated:
> Agree. It's quite easy to telnet to a port to see if you get a response.
> Do it a lot.

  The kids are using nc (netcat) these days.  It supports both TCP and UDP.  

  -spc

Telnet was Re: G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...)

[Christian Liendo]

Agree. It's quite easy to telnet to a port to see if you get a response.
Do it a lot.

> Are ifconfig, netstat, traceroute, et al really insecure?(Maybe a case
> could be made for traceroute)   These types of changes to the core of
> userland are epic dumb IMHO.   Telnet is very useful for debugging, and
> certainly dropping telnetd is a good thing - which everyone has done.