Another good reason for telnet

[John Heryer]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 mrkshrt at transparentsolutions.com wrote:

> I may have lost the point here at some place along the line, but the
> security issue isn't telnet client, it is telnet running on the server as
> far as I know.
> 
> When you do things like telnet to port 80 to act like a browser, that isn't
> using telnet on the server, you are just acting to the web server like a web
> browser by using telnet.
> 

When I read 'telnet', I think of the general protocol. After reading his 
post I was under the impression that Mr. Smith was advocating the use of 
the protocol. I absolutly agree that the telnet client is a very useful 
tool in troubleshooting the variety services on a machine. Though I do 
believe that its use is limited and should not go any further than that. 

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John Heryer
jheryer at jayhawks.net