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telnet

alt. (context computing English) A network protocol that enables one computer to communicate with another via the Internet; the program that acts as the client in this situation n. (context computing English) A network protocol that enables one computer to communicate with another via the Internet; the program that acts as the client in this situation vb. (context computing intransitive English) To use such a program to make such a connection

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Telnet

Telnet is an application layer protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control information in an 8-bit byte oriented data connection over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

Telnet was developed in 1969 beginning with RFC 15, extended in RFC 854, and standardized as Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Standard STD 8, one of the first Internet standards.

Historically, Telnet provided access to a command-line interface (usually, of an operating system) on a remote host, including most network equipment and operating systems with a configuration utility (including systems based on Windows NT). However, because of serious security concerns when using Telnet over an open network such as the Internet, its use for this purpose has waned significantly in favor of SSH.

The term telnet is also used to refer to the software that implements the client part of the protocol. Telnet client applications are available for virtually all computer platforms. Telnet is also used as a verb. To telnet means to establish a connection with the Telnet protocol, either with command line client or with a programmatic interface. For example, a common directive might be: "To change your password, telnet to the server, log in and run the passwd command." Most often, a user will be telnetting to a Unix-like server system or a network device (such as a router) and obtaining a login prompt to a command line text interface or a character-based full-screen manager.

Usage examples of "telnet".

So he ran a program to see if he could connect to any of the services running on that computer, and found an open port with a Telnet service running, which allows one computer to connect remotely to another computer and access it as if directly connected using a dumb terminal.

Moreover, Telnet was a way to use the network, not a lower-level building block.

Although it took more than a year to work out, the Telnet protocol was a relatively simple procedure.

It was TIPs and Telnet together that paved the way for rapid expansion of the network.

The file-transfer and Telnet programs existed, but the user community wanted more tools, such as common editors and accounting schemes.

Line vty 0 4 specifies the number of Telnet sessions allowed in the router.

However, I took the liberty of examining the UCLA telnet records, and while you were talking with the person who calls herself Gabriel Hale, Dr.

Web - is a wild, raw place, where hackers use complicated commands, telnet utilities and communications software stripped bare as a dragster to sail throughout the world at, literally, the speed of light.

We can either dial up or use Telnet to connect to the system, if you can support that.

Line vty 0 4 specifies the number of Telnet sessions allowed in the router.

But if they don't have local dialups, you can still access a shell account located *anywhere* in the world by setting up a PPP connection with your local dialup ISP, and then accessing your shell account using a telnet program on your home computer.

It may well have a firewall that rejects attempted logins from anyone who telnets in from a host that is not on its approved list.

No special permissions are needed to execute the program, which interestingly runs through a telnet session as well.

Curtis exited from the homepage and telnetted into a backdoor entry of a site he knew already existed.

It basically works by telnetting to one port after another of the victim computer.