Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, Sevan Janiyan wrote:

> On 13/12/2018 22:50, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> > telnet:
> > 1. terrible code, with many abstraction violations
> > 2. something people expect to talk to their legacy machines, which
> > nobody but them has access to.
> > 3. common use case is served by netcat, already in base.
> > 4. too much superfluous functionality.
>
> On the slower systems that we support, we avoid the lengthy (45min+)
> ssh-keygen process so it's much quicker to get up and running with
> things from scratch. Especially if you are testing from scratch regularly.

Am I the only one who uses telnet to make sure web servers are working
sometimes? I might need to learn how to do that with netcat or
something else.

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