Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:22:53 +0000 From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: WEIRD: telnet Message-ID: <20050213232253.GO63378@eris.tenfour> In-Reply-To: <20050213160059.G94542@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> References: <20050213145302.14A9E4BDAA@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <20050213160059.G94542@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>
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* Colin J. Raven <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> [0205 15:05]: > Some tangential observations: > 1. Unless you *must* use telnet for some reason, it's a good idea to > turn it off. This is a telnet client, how would you 'turn that off'. This is a very common way to test if a socket is listening, and there are no security issues with connecting to a socket on your own machine anyway. > 2. Please tell us that - in the example above - you weren't telnet'ing > as root? I see it was to locahost...but even so that's not a great > practice. This makes no sense at all. Can we all stop knee-jerking at the word telnet? -- 'Aww, you know what always cheers me up? Laughing at other people's misfortunes.' -- Bender Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns
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