[Info-vax] Is Eisner down?

David Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Thu Dec 5 16:28:09 EST 2013


Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <l7o6ki$h0e$1 at solani.org>,
> 	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>> Bill Gunshannon schrieb:
>>
>>> I have to say it again.  Why on earth would anyone run telnet on any
>>> server?  What can it possibly offer that is worth the risk?
>> Less hassle than the mess which comes with ssh/ssl?
> 
> Well, I don;t remember doing it on VMS as our last VMS box went away
> before SSH was so common, but I owuld hope it is no harder than what
> it takes to set up SSHD on any other box, which is trivial.
> 
>> And if the network is "internal", what risk?
> 
> Define "internal".  My home network is just me, my wife and two dogs
> and I don't let them run telnet either.  As for "internal" non-home
> networks.  The wireless at the University is not encrypted.  Can
> you figure out what that means?  :-)
> 
> bill
>  
> 

Which dog don't you trust, or .....

You don't have to trust the wife, she's always in charge.

:-)



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