Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Telnet numbers wanted Message-ID: Date: 2 Dec 90 14:30:28 GMT References: <1990Nov24.102421.7383@watcsc.waterloo.edu> <17513@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 44 Nntp-Posting-Host: odin In-reply-to: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU's message of 25 Nov 90 17:36:57 GMT On 25 Nov 90 17:36:57 GMT, gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone) said: gs26> In <1990Nov24.102421.7383@watcsc.waterloo.edu> gs26> tcchao@watcsc.waterloo.edu (T C Chao) writes: tcchao> I wonder anyone of you you could tell me how to obtain a tcchao> complete of telnet numbers of this world. Also, could you tcchao> please give me some "interesting" numbers which I could login as tcchao> guest and browse around? 8^) There are quite a few Internet Bulletin boards for example -- a list has been posted recently in some newsgroup, maybe comp.misc; also have a look at the NIXPUB posting there, some of the sites are on the internet. As to browsing around, I think that anonymous FTP is amply sufficient, and highly reawrding in terms of the mass of useful, free sw that you can get. I would encourage anybody, especially people learning programming, to browse around anonymous FTP sites. Looking at and installing other, presumably more accomplished, programmers' code is one of the best educational experiences. gs26> Yeah, right. Think I'll go shut down inetd.... and while I'm at gs26> it, log sendmail to hades and back.... Anybody who gives out gs26> hints like this deserves what s/he gets. If a site has guest accounts for telnet, they are offering a public service, ust like an anonymous account for ftp. If a site has "involuntary" guest accounts their sysadmins are not doing their job too well. If a site has serious security needs and runs stock workstations with stock Unixes and utilities with stock warranties they are not showing due diligence at best, and deceiving their management at worst. Remember: when you are on the internet you cannot really distinguish between local and worldwide access. Security, as somebody recently so appropriately remembered, is a host, not a network issue. gs26> quasi-paranoid sysadmin Quasi-Paranoia cna be one form of inability to learn. -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com