Question

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1808900]

Comments

[rfmcdpei.livejournal.com]

Telnet?

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

I use Terminal.app and ssh.

You should use ssh as well, even if you are using a Windows machine.

[drplokta]

This.

[chriskarate.livejournal.com]

BeipMU, natch.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

A. SSH

OR

B. Open terminal, type telnet at the prompt.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I haven't had to do it in a while, but if I did, yes, Terminal.app and ssh.

[daev.livejournal.com]

I use SecureCRT. It seems like every new version adds even more useful features based on what we Telnetting terminal freaks love. The menus are easy to use and there's lots of options for Emacs fans and IRC chatters, plus support for running X Windows and other Unix software across the SSH connection. I've sold a lot of other people at my company on it; if you're not averse to commercial software -- where you do get your money's worth in support, upgrades, and features -- give it a try.

[martin-wisse.livejournal.com]

Used to use this as well, but putty, which is freeware, has everything I need these days and can handle ssh too.

[jwgh]

For my smart terminal emulation needs I use tn3270.

Unless you meant "remote terminal session"

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

ssh or gtfo.

Telnet has its uses, but these days it's more like

telnet host port

and see if anything answers, usually as a first step to figuring out why it doesn't.

There should be no reason why you should need to or be able to telnet to a shell session. Indeed, there should be no reason to run telnetd at all.

The windows command console...

[azurelunatic]

... these days. On the rare occasion that I do, which is usually for testing IRC. In the days when I spent an appreciable amount of time in the UAF library linux lab, I used something else. But that was over a decade ago.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Who are you? Keith Lynch?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

[brooksmoses]

I should clarify my answer that I assume by "telnet" you do indeed literally mean "connect via the telnet network protocol", rather than the generic "make a text-mode terminal connection."

If you meant the latter, I typically have at least two PuTTY windows open on my computer; more if I'm actively doing work -- which would make my "Seriously? Telnet?" answer quite inappropriate! I have, of course, installed copies of the old "6x13" terminal fonts from old Unix systems so that it looks right.

[eagle]

Yes, same here; telnet means RFC 854. ssh is another beast entirely, with a completely different wire protocol. (For which I use OpenSSH as a client.)

[hattifattener]

This is a confusing question. For remote login, I use ssh (via the "ssh" command— crazy, I know!). For MUDs (if I still played them) and generally talking to daemons, I telnet using telnet (the "telnet" command). The crazy Windows penchant for mixing unrelated programs together (terminal emulator + ssh client?) is, um, crazy.

[vass]

I use the terminal app that comes with Ubuntu. And as everyone else said, SSH, not telnet.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I use the free program that comes with Macintoshes.

[jiawen]

I haven't used Telnet in several years, but when I did, I used the Mandrake terminal app. (Yes, it was that long ago.)

Actually, I got into Linux largely because I wanted a Telnet app that could deal with Chinese characters; PuTTY, at least at that time, couldn't. But then I never really used Telnet much.

[comrade-cat.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've used telnet since college ('96-00) or maybe a few years after.

But when I did I used Terminal, which if I remember correctly is the free program that comes with Windows.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Like all others, terminal and SSH, and I only really do it when forced to...

[n6tqs.livejournal.com]

Depends- Usually putty when traveling, Kermit at home, SSH on the Linux system.
But I'm doing a lot less of it these days.

[ellarien]

PuTTY and ssh, or xterm under Cygwin and ssh. The systems I connect to stopped allowing plain telnet/rlogin somewhere around the turn of the century.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

Ditto here on PuTTY/ssh mode, except it was a few years after 2000. But they finally got fed up with some sort or other of "let's try repeatedly to get in using telnet" script kiddy, so plain telnet connections got taken away.

The PuTTY is white letters on black background, like the reading gods intended, of course.

--Dave, has more than once said "yes, that's what email REALLY LOOKS LIKE" to an onlooker

[julesjones]

The last time I used telnet was at least one continent ago, but whatever it is that Turnpike provides under its telnet menu option, Which is probably the free program that comes with windows.

turnpike

[smitjb.livejournal.com]

Demon Turnpike?

It has an internal telnet client.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

I used PuTTY on my cruddy old windows laptop. On my home iMac and my shiny new Macbook Pro, I use ssh under Terminal.app.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Two computers ago, I had to use telnet to print stuff. Haven't done it since 2005.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Actual telnet ? Haven't logged in to a system with it in many years.
Connecting to systems ? Windows : PuTTY or Tectia client (at work)
Mac : command-line ssh from Terminal.app.
Phone: ConnectBot app (Android).

(why yes, it does boggle me that I can ssh to a site from my phone and get a mostly-usable session out of it)

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

(why yes, it does boggle me that I can ssh to a site from my phone and get a mostly-usable session out of it)

That... whoa.

Hello, future.

[skunkboy.livejournal.com]

KiTTY (a fork from PuTTY) for most of my work (ssh, telnet and serial access (network engineer, so all three of those options get used))

[armb.livejournal.com]

I can't remmeber the last time I used puTTY for raw telnet rather than ssh, but I'm sure I have.