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Grex Cyberpunk Item 71: Anybody got a good telnet client they could hook me up with
Entered by plance on Sun Mar 1 22:58:43 UTC 1998:

Mine is acting weird and basically a piece of shit

14 responses total.

#1 of 14 by raven on Mon Mar 2 04:55:18 1998:

Umm first tell us what machine and OS you are using and define "weird," and
"piece of shit," and perhaps we can help you.

#2 of 14 by torch on Fri Mar 13 03:19:34 1998:

ref#71
Some pieces of shit are good shit! While other pieces are just shit!

#3 of 14 by memetics on Sun Apr 5 00:10:53 1998:

Flaming aside - seriously plance - tell us the OS and I'll see what I know.

Can you get multiple telnet clients for Unix?  I presumed they were all much
the same and it was only Windows that had variety?

#4 of 14 by srw on Mon Apr 6 20:50:16 1998:

Because unix system come with a bundled telnet client, which works 
pretty well, there never has been much call to write alternatives.

On windows, the lack of a good, free or bundled client has led to a 
proliferation of clients, of varying quality and feature sets.

#5 of 14 by mook on Sun Nov 7 04:26:34 1999:

You silly guys, you scared the d00d off..... LOL

#6 of 14 by mook on Sun Nov 7 04:26:56 1999:

Oh, silly girls too....

#7 of 14 by cyx on Mon Nov 8 15:40:20 1999:

Hm , I've been reading all this stuff ... Yeah , its silly to ask
someone to teach hacking/phreaking , etc. or offer to teach someone.
Anyway , why do u , Lesser A. Mook (mook) , feel so 31337?
u say u ask for permission to break into his/her system? is this
cyberpunk?   i think this is way off it ...
my native language isnt English so sorry for the mistakes.

c

#8 of 14 by sygnall on Wed Aug 15 09:14:39 2001:

But still, you haven't told the guy wether there is an other telnet client..

#9 of 14 by freddude on Sat Dec 21 20:11:38 2002:

As stupid as this may sound, I would like to know where I can find a good
telnet client also.  E-mail me at freddude@grex.cyberspace.org if you can help
me.  I don't think anyone is going to help me though because no one has
responded to this in a long time.  Anyway, thanks for listening.

#10 of 14 by danny on Wed Mar 3 17:52:20 2004:

Seriously regarding #7 of 9, what does a telnet client have to do with what
your dribbling on about? Should have just suggested PuTTy! It handles most
telnet sessions and the option of SSH tunneling too!

#11 of 14 by m0u53r on Fri Nov 25 08:05:31 2005:

Why some people continue to using telnet??? Isn't secure... all data
transmission with telnet are clean... with a simple telnet-sniffer or net-dump
is possible to catch username, password and all kind of data. If you use
windows, use PuTTY with the option of SSH connection, NOT telnet with SSH
encryption. If u use any other kind of OS, use SSH (v2.0, the first are
vulnerabily).
Bye

#12 of 14 by zyraf on Fri Nov 25 18:22:08 2005:

hi
putty has a nice telnet feature that work as it should... telnet clients are
still useful, you can browse web with them, you can check your email (POP)
account, you can do IRC... useful for educational purposes, or when you write
some piece of code and you have to check if you are trying to do something
the way it will work (find an RFC of what you need and try). So telnet clients
is not only remote shell thing :)

#13 of 14 by m0u53r on Sat Nov 26 00:18:14 2005:

Yes, but all information are clean for external reading. Yeah, for many kind
of data telnet is perfect (i'm not hate telnet), but for other kind of
information is not good.
Your point of view is good, but i've seen telnet usefull only for join to
remote host, not for other kind of services... it's only my opinion. And for
my idea of usage, ssh are more secure than telnet.
Happy Telnetting)

#14 of 14 by malymi on Wed Dec 7 01:22:12 2005:

telnet is quite capable of being secure.  ssh is not without flaw.

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