On 05/09/2013 01:51 PM, John Slee wrote:
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>
> And on the original topic... Seriously, are you folks
> arguing against installing 'telnet' (or 'nc') serious?
> Really? If you avoided 'nc' because of some fantasy of
> insecurity, did you leave Perl installed? Or Java?
As has been noted earlier, it's not telnet that's the problem... It's
telnetd.
With 'nc' the same command can be set up to operate in listen mode, but
normally that's manual. As long as it's manual - again - no problem.
The fact that you _can_ set it up to listen automatically, might be an
argument against it, but when it comes to stupid things "don't do that".
"You can't be too good looking, or too well-equipped" - Dilbert
Tools like telnet (or nc if you like) and traceroute, and tcpdump just
make you better equipped.
I'm not going to get any better-looking - so I'll have to settle for
better equipped ;-).
--
Alan Robertson <[email protected]> - @OSSAlanR
"Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me claim
from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William Wilberforce
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