telnet is not defunct, but is a very basic connection. Normally, connecting
to a unix or other multi-user system, you will have to login/logon with a
name and password in reply to prompts. Usually it comes with a built in
terminal emulator, mostly ansi or vt100, you can get other flavours like IBM
3270 etc. It is useful in setting up interactive connections for testing,
eg connecting to SMTP servers etc. ssh, rsh, rcp and the like are more
specialized connections.
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Harding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 14 June 2001 16:26
To: Fco. Javier Valladolid Hdez.; Sally
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Telnet
What Javier says is very true about using ssh but if something happens to
lock up at the remote computer it can be hard to get out with ssh without
resorting to killing processes whereas, if the network is secure from
peeking, one can end a telnet session with the "Ctrl-]" combination. I'm not
sure that telnet is defunct, though. Is it?
On Friday 15 June 2001 03:43, Fco. Javier Valladolid Hdez. wrote:
> Telnet is a Character based terminal program, you can accessed a remote
> terminal from your PC with your IP, ...
>
> I'm believe that Telnet is now defunct , best use SSH, is a similar
> program, but it is encrypted, as it provides best security...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: perlcgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 7:52 AM
> Subject: Telnet
>
> > I've seen lots of references to telnet, but I can't find an explanation
> > of what it actually is. Is it similar to FTP?
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Best wishes,
Derek Harding, (BA MIAP)
ICT & Network Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
