On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 17:00:44 +0100 Marco Moock <m...@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
> > > > How do you find 1994? It seems to be a mail from yesterday: > > For me it sounded like a joke. > > Telnet is unencrypted (although it is possible to run it over TLS to > encrypt it) and SSH exists more than 20 years. True. None the less, there is at least one perfectly good use for telnet: testing connections to servers. charles@hawk:~$ telnet hawk Trying 127.0.1.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused charles@hawk:~$ telnet hawk 80 Trying 127.0.1.1... Connected to hawk.localdomain. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. charles@hawk:~$ The first attempt shows that hawk does not have a telnet server on the default port. The second shows that it does have a server of some sort on port 80, which is assigned to http. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/