Comments on: Windows: Change Your Default Telnet Handler http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/11/21/windows-change-your-default-telnet-handler/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: Nathan Baker http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/11/21/windows-change-your-default-telnet-handler/#comment-7080 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:31:57 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/11/21/windows-change-your-default-telnet-handler/#comment-7080

Ah, I thought you meant you were sending or receiving mail the hardcore way ;)

netcat and telnet are like the while and do loops of network tools. Very similar, but sometimes one or the other just feels more right.

Just like nethack, I can see other scenarios where telnet makes sense even if ssh could conceivably do the job. But I’ll definitely grant you that I type ‘ssh’ multiple times per day and ‘telnet’ maybe once a month.

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By: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/11/21/windows-change-your-default-telnet-handler/#comment-7075 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:03:07 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/11/21/windows-change-your-default-telnet-handler/#comment-7075

Yup, that’s what I meant when I mentioned telneting to port 110 or 25. But you could theoretically use netcat for that with about the same effect.

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By: Nathan Baker http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/11/21/windows-change-your-default-telnet-handler/#comment-7074 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:06:50 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/11/21/windows-change-your-default-telnet-handler/#comment-7074

Not exactly an everyday thing, but if you’re debugging a server (mailserver, http server, whatever) then telnet is your friend.

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