telnet on local LAN question

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 8/18/2011 8:59 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 20:15 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
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> of course - you have it right.

Whew, that's good to know (smile)

>
> Of course a telnet server would generally use the well-known TCP port 23
> but generally usage of this is discouraged since ssh is common and
> encrypted and telnet server is an unencrypted connection.
>
> Craig
>
>
Craig:

Thanks for reply. As mentioned before, I am only using telnet for 
testing as ssh / scp is far better. And I am trying to do this in the 
simplest of cases ... one machine telnets to the other just to prove I 
can make a connection (as in understanding iptables et al to be able to 
then solve more useful problems, like mail / mailx ... which may prove 
to be less acceptable than scp after I can test drive).

Paul