Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 18:54:24 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk> To: conrads@neosoft.com Cc: "G.R. Gaudreau" <grgaud@sprint.ca>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports (was: FreeBSD main platform & Linux) Message-ID: <35E05750.9829F875@boothman.easynet.co.uk> References: <XFMail.980822205651.conrads@neosoft.com>
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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 <andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk> 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
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