WEIRD: telnet

Anthony Atkielski atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr
Sun Feb 13 15:13:29 GMT 2005


Colin J. Raven writes:

> 1. Unless you *must* use telnet for some reason, it's a good idea to
> turn it off.

Telnet is port 23; this is port 61 (NI-MAIL, whatever that is).  Whoever
answers will be whatever program is listening on port 61, but it won't
be a standard telnet daemon.

-- 
Anthony




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