Telnetd broken

[Brendan Jones]

On 01/31/2013 12:08 PM, drago01 wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Karel Volný <kvolny at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Dne Čt 31. ledna 2013 18:32:57, Ed Greshko napsal(a):
>>> On 01/31/2013 06:15 PM, drago01 wrote:
>>>> Yes there are usecases for telnet, the OP one isn't.
>>>
>>> How do you know?  As far as I can tell from the thread, no one asked and he
>>> didn't state.
>>
>> from the original question:
>>
>> "Trying 192.168.1.15..."
>>
>> ... that doesn't look like in a public Internet address block ;-)
>
>   telnet omen.com
> Trying 70.89.176.169...
> Connected to omen.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
> Kernel 3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64 on an x86_64 (9)
> men login:
>
> .... looks very public to me ;)
>
ouch.

I use telnet everyday, but none of these ports are internet facing.