Linux and ip address

[Doug Sutherland]

 > No, you don't want telnet, that's insecure.

Assuming internet yes. But sometimes people need to telnet in from
a laptop to linux box to do something. I always leave the telnet
service commented out in inetd.conf, but on occassion I just want
to connect from a local machine. Telnet is fine for this if you
are inside a firewall for example. Or I can set up /etc/hosts.deny
and /etc/hosts.allow to specify who is allowed connection.

Its not a good idea to leave telnetd running if connected to the
internet. And yes, ssh is the better alternative.

   -- Doug