telnet session closing with ^]

Martin Cigorraga martincigorraga at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 19:12:35 UTC 2015


In case anyone else wants to follow Gordon's advice here is an interesting
guide to get started quickly:
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/ncat-nmap-netcat

HTH

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:55 PM Martin Cigorraga <martincigorraga at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you Gordon, will try it :D
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:42 PM Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 07/09/2015 10:27 AM, Martin Cigorraga wrote:
>> > Sometimes you simply can't ssh - like when you need to test a
>> > connection to a web server or a DDBB.
>> > As I see it, telnet is far from dying.
>>
>> Use "nc" (provided by nmap-ncat).
>>
>> When you're connecting to a non-telnet service, you just need a TCP
>> connection.  Telnet isn't that.  Telnet is actually a protocol of its
>> own, with infrastructure to propagate environment variables, and
>> communicate terminal size changes, etc, across an interactive shell
>> session.  For simple TCP connections, it's the wrong tool.
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