Are we talking about the 'TCP 3-way handshake'? -- Kevin Blackham 801-539-0852 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 877-964-7746 XMission Internet, Salt Lake City, Utah
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:47:25PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote: > At 02:25 PM 6/20/00 +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > >They don't use NVT. The TELNET protocol is not running on (for example) a > >web server. > > Yeah but the NVT settings have to be negotiated for each side to talk to > each other. If I telnet to an Apache webserver on port 80, my telnet is > going to negotiate NVT with whatever's on the other end. Both sides have to > agree to establish the connection. Therefore, either Apache or something > below Apache in the stack has to know about NVT. Otherwise Apache would > tell me to go take a flying leap if I tried to telnet to it. What is my > telnet client negotiating with in this case??? > > > +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | -=I T ' S P R I N C I P L E T H A T C O U N T S=- | > |=- -=ALAN KEYES FOR PRESIDENT=- -=| > | Balanced Budgets Personal Freedoms Morality Lower Tax | > |=-- http://www.Keyes2000.com. --=| > +———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————+ > > 00000100 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
