From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18231 invoked by alias); 28 Oct 2013 11:14:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 18196 invoked by uid 89); 28 Oct 2013 11:14:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,EXECUTABLE_URI,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-la0-f53.google.com Received: from mail-la0-f53.google.com (HELO mail-la0-f53.google.com) (209.85.215.53) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:14:01 +0000 Received: by mail-la0-f53.google.com with SMTP id eo20so4997333lab.40 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:13:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.168.105 with SMTP id zv9mr771399lbb.48.1382958837633; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.24.72 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:13:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <5202BDED.9030801@cygwin.com> <20130808070854.GA19486@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:03:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Telnet in latest Cygwin From: Robert Klemme To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00403.txt.bz2 On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Ralph Siegler wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > I'd suggest to use ssh instead. >> Telnet is inherently unsecure and ssh is a wonderful replacement. > 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 There's also netcat (nc). http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fnc%2Fnc-1.107-4&grep=%2Fnc.exe Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple