On May 7, 2013, at 8:23 AM, "Brodie, Kent" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Personal side note, telnet has always been a great debugging tool---  but 
> what kind of sucks is that these days, telnet is usually NOT included by 
> default in most linux distro installs.   (it's available of course, but if 
> you didn't explicitly install it, chances are it's not there).
> 
> Which of course is really bad when you're debugging network issues, as if you 
> can't get to your repo, you're sort of SOL until you dig up a dvd :-)
> 
> On my RHEL5 boxes, it's there usually.   Centos6?   Nope.
> 
> [root@chmura ~]# telnet
> -bash: telnet: command not found
> 

Well "telnet" for this is deprecated-- "nc" is the way to go. 

The trouble there is that there are different netcat versions, that take 
differing syntax.

-- Corey

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