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Re: Telnet in latest Cygwin
- From: Ralph Siegler <rsiegler at rsiegler dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 18:15:14 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Telnet in latest Cygwin
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
I'd suggest to use ssh instead.
> Telnet is inherently unsecure and ssh is a wonderful replacement.
>
> Corinna
>
but telnet is an invaluable tool for command line troubleshooting tcp
network connectivity issues to SMTP, HTTP and other services by manually
typing the protocol commands into the server. ssh can't do that
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