]] Russ Allbery > Scott Kitterman <[email protected]> writes: > > > Personally, I use telnet pretty routinely. Generally when I'm acting as > > a human pretending to be an MTA for troubleshooting purposes. I would > > find it pretty surprising to find it absent. > > Try nc. It works pretty well. :)
Telnet has the nice feature of telling you what's happening (trying to connect, connected, etc), something nc needs -v to do. Purely a convenience/finger macro problem of course, but I suspect telnet's being used because people have typed it for the better part of 20 or 30 years. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
