Re: Moving telnet/telnetd from base to pkgsrc

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, Edgar Fuß wrote:

> > send hate mail my way.
> I guess you are over-looking my (and probably a lot of other network
> administrator's) primary use case for /usr/bin/telnet: connect to a
> HTTP/SMTP/IMAP/whatever port and speak the protocol.

Yep, there's still a lot of network gear out there that doesn't have a
built-in pseudo-browser-for-device-management.

On second thought, I think I'd prefer telnet over http anyway, even if
the device _did_ have a pseudo-browser.  :)



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