On 09/21/2022 4:11 pm, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
Mike,
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 01:02:17PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote:
M> I have no problem with deprecating (or removing) telnetd in base. I
M> think the client should remain, though. I use it frequently,
although
M> not on the telnet port. ftp* are another issue; anonymous FTP is a
M> perfectly reasonable usage. I use it to download FreeBSD images
often.
Is there any service where telnet to a port would be preferred over
nc(1)?
telnet <host> <port> is basically finger memory (at least for me), and
nc isn't
in base (AFAIR)
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