Re: git: 24e1824e4646 - main - Deprecate telnet daemon

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:50:20 UTC 
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 3:21 PM Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:

> On 09/21/2022 4:11 pm, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 01:02:17PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote:
> > M> I have no problem with deprecating (or removing) telnetd in base.  I
> > M> think the client should remain, though.  I use it frequently,
> > although
> > M> not on the telnet port.  ftp* are another issue; anonymous FTP is a
> > M> perfectly reasonable usage.  I use it to download FreeBSD images
> > often.
> >
> > Is there any service where telnet to a port would be preferred over
> > nc(1)?
>
> telnet <host> <port> is basically finger memory (at least for me), and
> nc isn't
> in base (AFAIR)
>

Deprecating telnet***d***  doesn't change that at all. telnet, the client,
is still in
base.. but so is nc and it has been since (git blame
usr.bin/nc/Makefile.... ) 2005.

Warner