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2008-01-18 , 19:17
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Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
b) I would, in fact, also like a real working telnet on the NIT platform ... not for logging into hosts, but for connectivity trouble shooting (telnet to port 25 of my mail server, to be sure that it's accepting connections from my NIT, etc.). Telnet is an amazingly useful program.
You probably know this, but telnet in that mode is not really using the telnet protocol. Netcat does that quite well (& is more flexible than telnet), so if you want telnet for anything besides spreading your password abroad on its way to a telnet server, I'd use netcat.