On May 7, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) how many servers do you know of will accept a telnet connection (as in a 
> network terminal)? Hence, telnet is obsolete.

For the purpose of "telnet to port 80", I don't care about the network terminal 
tcp/23 port.

> 2) nc is bidirectional. When you wonder if the problem is your apps, or the 
> firewall blocking you, you can run nc in listen mode on one side, then nc in 
> opening mode on the other side.

That's a whole different use case than "talk to that remote port". That's "open 
up a local listener daemon" essentially (which you could talk to, from the 
remote side using NC or Telnet).

So, again - for the purpose of "open a connection to $REMOTE_PORT on 
$REMOTE_HOST to talk to it manually", why is nc "better"?

D


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