[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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