On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:35:48AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:31:06AM -0700, michael young muttered: --> i know > i know...but i still would like to use it. i have telnetd installed, > hosts.allow and deny dont have anything in them, /etc/inet.d shows telnet > running bec. telnet works when the hostname/eth0 ip is used but not with the > inet addr... I would like to telnet to work over the internet even if it's > that insecure, obsolete, sucks...etc --> > > I use telnet all the time. I'd be very interested in hearing about a better > alternative
Insecure is the only good argument up there. ssh solves that. If you're
not worried about security, telnet is just fine.
Mike
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