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A hole in telnetd

Posted Jan 5, 2012 15:27 UTC (Thu) by joey (subscriber, #328)
Parent article: A hole in telnetd

There are valid reasons to run a public telnetd. telnet nethack.alt.org for example.

Fun graph:

http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=telnetd+te...

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Another good reason to run telnetd

Posted Jan 8, 2012 2:48 UTC (Sun) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

> There are valid reasons to run a public telnetd. telnet nethack.alt.org for example.

Also, telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl for some entertainment.

Another good reason to run telnetd

Posted Jan 12, 2012 18:09 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The question there is why anyone bothered to add IPv6 support to telnetd.

A hole in telnetd

Posted Jan 11, 2012 15:11 UTC (Wed) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]

One could run a public sshd just as well. No one should snoop on me dungeon crawling.

Regarding the graph, plotting the relation between ssh and telnetd would be nice. I spot-checked the year 2007, which for some reason saw the doubling of the telnetd numbers. sshd installations increased by a much higher factor.