On May 7, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On May 7, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Corey Quinn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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. 
> 
> I'm curious "why", other than "This is newer and shinier".

Hmm. I've been scolded for this one a few times, for various reasons.

They all seem to come down to added flexibility, and saner behavior in scripts. 
I'm not sure I agree for the simple use case of "check by hand to see if a port 
is listening" though. I'd be curious to see if anyone else has a better answer.

-- Corey
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