Hi, On Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 01:57:34PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I occasionally use telnet to test if a port has a server listening on > it.
Me too, because of deeply ingrained habits, but I know they are bad habits. 😀 I've started banning install of telnet client to force myself out of it. The main reason it's bad is that telnet client is designed as an interactive login thing and is doing terminal stuff, which you don't really want when connecting to random TCP services. You can go to some effort to disable those things, but the job should really be done with nc or socat or similar. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
