On 5 March 2012 01:48, T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Tim Evans <tkevans@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 03/04/2012 08:35 PM, don fisher wrote: >> >>> >>> What does telnet require that ping does not? >> >> >> A running telnet daemon on the destination host. > > Yep. Try SSH. Besides being nine quintillion times more secure, it's > generally included by default on Fedora systems. > This isn't entirely true depending what you're trying to do. Connecting to a shell on the host via a telnet session is definitely insecure (I nearly said 'less secure', but it's not secure at all, don't do it over a network that anyone else can access). But you can use telnet to do things you can't do with ssh, like trying to connect to other services as part of troubleshooting, for example NFS or http. -- imalone -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
