telnet info

[allinone]

do any one tell me about telnet and its use, are there any working telnet sites

[blu3fire]

http://www.google.com/search?q=telnet what do you mean by "any working telnet sites" ?

[CoolFinalFan]

more on it > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TELNET

[Smith6612]

You can use Telnet to get into devices like routers and modems and configure them for what I've heard.

[TechAsh]

Telnet is sort of like an older and less secure version of SSH. There are very few things which still use it, but as Smith6612 said some routers and modems support it (Mainly the older ones).

If you want to see a working telnet site, telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl

[TheMan177]

If you want to see a working telnet site, telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl

Ha, I remember that, was posted on these forums a while ago I think :P

[Submariner]

Telnet provides you a command window on the target machine. It is considered unsecue since it passes the username and password (along with all other commands) in plain text while SSH uses encryption (several flavors to choose from) to login and for communications back to the client.

Based on the username logged in as you will have the permissions granted to that user as if you were logged onto the console. Some telnet sites allow anonymous access where you customarily provide your email address as the password, this is a restricted account and normally provides access to a download and/or shared files area.

Enjoy,

James

[knightcon]

Much the same as any tool Telnet has it's ideal uses and uses which are less than ideal. Console configuration of devices such as routers, switches, etc where the connection goes from PC to device is ideal as a secure connection is not required and it can be very fast as it essentially takes your keystrokes and triggers those keys in the device straight away. Telnet is not however ideal for work over a network or the internet as anyone with a packet sniffer can identify everything in cleartext. Many companies including CISCO are working on removing the need for telnet and moving either to GUI based control interfaces or SSH based interfaces.

There are a fair few games and tools online which are accessible on telnet but then again if you know what your typing you even can connect to a basic website. Telnet at its most basic level just provides a socket connection to a device or server and takes all the data you enter in using your keyboard and sends it through as a socket stream.