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telnet bad, ssh good
Authored by: jollyroger on Aug 20, '03 11:48:15AM

That's easy. Some people need to access their machines remotely from within secure networks that do not allow ssh connections and only allow telnet access via proxy servers. This is a common situation in a corporate high-tech workplace environment.

I have my firewall on my home machine set up to drop all incoming telnet connections except ones from a specific host (the telnet proxy server I must go through) during certain work hours. It's not the most secure solution, but it's relatively secure and it sure beats nothing. = )

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