Subj : Re: Windows Telnet...
To : Digital Man
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Thu Oct 30 2014 05:50 pm
-=> On 10-29-1414:13, Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
Hiya DM....
DM> Re: Windows Telnet...
DM> By: Bill McGarrity to All on Wed Oct 29 2014 11:04 am
> Good day all...
>
> Quick question. Can I use Window's telent.exe as a command in a door to
> connect to an outside IP and have the I/O appear in the callers client?
DM> Possibly. I'm not sure I would trust users with access to Microsoft's
DM> telnet.exe. For one thing, it would allow them to 'close' the
DM> connection you're bridging them with and open another connection,
DM> anywhere, potentially using your system as an unsuspecting attack
DM> source.
Understood... but if I use the Clean-up command to "exit" the window?
> Reason behind this, the IP i am trying to access requires a newer version
> of telnet than what is supplied with Synchronet's telgate.
DM> What led you to that conclusion? I'm not aware of any "newer version of
DM> telnet" since RFC854, from 1983. There are additional
DM> options, suboptions, etc. introduced in subsequent RFCs, but these
DM> aren't "newer versions of telnet"
This is the message I get when logging in with telgate
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Welcome to THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND telnet service!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* *
* National Weather Service information provided by Alden Electronics, Inc. *
* and updated each minute as reports come in over our data feed. *
* *
* **Note: If you cannot get past this opening screen, you must use a *
* different version of the "telnet" program--some of the ones for IBM *
* compatible PC's have a bug that prevents proper connection. *
* *
* comments:
[email protected] *
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This screen is as far as I can get. I have to CTRL-] to disconnect. The url
s:
rainmaker.wunderground.com
Maybe you can try it on your end.
>At a command
> prompt using Windows telnet I can access the site with no problems.
DM> That's one data point. If you want toroot-cause and resolve the issue
DM> with telgate, I could help with that.
That would be great!! I'd much rather use telgate.
> Connecting to the system with a client the system opens a DOS window, the
> information is displayed within that window yet nothing to the incoming
> client. Do I need to configure the Intercept I/O?
DM> You would need enable I/O interception, yes. But like I said, I think
DM> that's a bad idea (for security reasons).
Understood.
Thank you sir!!
Bill
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