[Info-vax] Is Eisner down?
Bill Gunshannon
bill at server2.cs.scranton.edu
Thu Dec 5 16:46:18 EST 2013
In article <l7qr1o$610$2 at dont-email.me>,
David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article <l7o6ki$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 .....
I trust Cookie. But I am not so sure about the Siberian....
>
> You don't have to trust the wife, she's always in charge.
>
>:-)
On the INTERNET noone can tell your a dog.
bill
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