From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 23 10:59:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA08308 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 10:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from papaya.mail.easynet.net (papaya.mail.easynet.net [195.40.1.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA08279 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 10:58:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk) Received: (qmail 27145 invoked from network); 23 Aug 1998 17:58:09 -0000 Received: from boothman.easynet.co.uk (194.154.100.117) by papaya.mail.easynet.net with SMTP; 23 Aug 1998 17:58:09 -0000 Received: by Boothman.easynet.co.uk (VPOP3 - Unregistered) with SMTP; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 18:54:24 +0100 Message-ID: <35E05750.9829F875@boothman.easynet.co.uk> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 18:54:24 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: conrads@neosoft.com CC: "G.R. Gaudreau" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports (was: FreeBSD main platform & Linux) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: VPOP3 V1.2.0d Unregistered Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > For some real fun, try telnetting to machines using some of these port numbers. > For instance, you can telnet into a news server using "telnet host 119" and > actually issue NNTP protocol commands and see what the server does. Port 25 > (and the proper remote host) will get you access to a system's mail server. > > Toys for geeks, you know. :-) But something that can actually be quite useful. I sometimes used to read my home e-mail from school by telnet-ing into my ISPs mail server. I wrote a web page on this :- http://www.boothman.easynet.co.uk/andrew/info/telmail.html -- Andrew Boothman http://www.boothman.easynet.co.uk/andrew/ PGP Key available from public servers ICQ ID:17526634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message