[citw150] Lesson 4 question 6

Question #6

12 July 2004, list serv


Create a brief report on telnet.
Tell us:
1) what you learned about 
telnet?s uses (provide a URL to document where you learned 
this) 
2) where did you practice telnet (again, support this with 
a URL) 
3)tell us what happened, and mention at least one thing 
that you learned about 
telnet as you tried using it.

Telnet is an application based on the Telnet protocol. 
This application is used to connect to remote computers, 
usually via 
the telnet port (23). For example, when you "telnet in 
from home to 
check your mail at school", you are using telnet to 
connect from one 
computer (your computer) to another computer (school's 
computer) 
generally in a different location. Once you have 
established your 
telnet connection, you then log in to that computer and 
execute 
commands remotely on that computer through your telnet 
interface. Most 
often, you are telneting to a unix/linux based system. 
Therefore, the 
commands you use such as "ls, cd, pine, elm, talk, rm" are 
Linux/Unix 
commands, and NOT telnet commands? I found this info at 
telnet.org 
which seemed to give me the most information in a way I 
understood. 

I don?t care for telnets, I will investigate them further 
to see 
if I can change my mind about them, but just give me a 
good website 
with colors and graphics and I?m happy. My first time 
using, it sent 
me to an online catalog that I probably would have gone to 
in the first 
for. Before I could get to another choice, it would lose 
my connection 
to the host. It was very slow, but I was using it at 
12:38am, maybe not 
a good time for the host computer at locis.loc.gov 
(telnet://140.147.254.3). It was not easy using and it was 
confusing. I don?t know that much about DOS and it used 
commands like 
that. I didn?t know what to type or where to go. It was 
like many 
years ago before graphics when we first sat at a computer 
knowing 
nothing!
  You stare at the blank screen trying to decide what to 
do. 
I was difficult for me to decide what you should to make 
it 
do something? I felt that same way with the telnet. Maybe 
because I 
didn?t know enough about the host computer. If I were 
telnetting (a 
word?) into my OWN computer I?d know what to look for. 
The second effort I went into the library of Congress, 
typed in 
a command and it brought up something totally unrelated to 
what I asked 
for from the catalog.   So, I?m not sure of the accuracy 
of the system. 

I learned that telnet is a remote control, not a remote 
access 
and that the two are different. Remote access is via a 
modem, slow 
telephone line, and logging into a remote network. Remote 
control is a 
direct control to the host computer, like accessing my 
home computer 
while traveling. Or like a network I have at home (via a 
cable between 
two computers). I can sit at one computer and access 
either one from 
the computer as if I were sitting in front of the other 
one. I found 
telnet.org, and that helped me somewhat with using a 
telnet and 
understanding it. It also gave some resources to go to, 
See info below 
for extra helps or information:

Places to Telnet Fun Stuff! I found on telnet.org
 From www.blinkenlights.nl


Star Wars asciimation -- telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl 
(port 23)
Marvin (eliza-like bot) -- 
telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl:42
The Bofh Excuse Server -- 
telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl:666 
The following gave a good description of using a telnet? I 
checked out 
the telnet tips http://www.lights.com/hytelnet/telnet.html 
Libraries: a few: UNITED STATES
locis.loc.gov (Library of Congress)
freenet.akron.oh.us visitor
aztec2.asu.edu guest visitor
bigsky.bigsky.dillon.mt.us bbs
bcn.boulder.co.us bcn
freenet.buffalo.edu freeport
capaccess.org guest visitor
sawdust.cvfn.org guest 
freenet-in-a.cwru.edu visitor
telnet.coin.missouri.edu guest 
freenet.vcu.edu guest visitor
danenet.wicip.org guest 
128.175.63.164
telnet.efn.org guest ENTER(key)
www.fortnet.org guest
genesee.freenet.org guest 
grfn.org visitor
glfn.org
detroit.freenet.org visitor 
I also found the telnet.exe on my computer?Microsoft 
Telnet but didn?t 
have a host name to put in to try it other than the help 
feature. 
carolann foerch <tapioca@xxxxxxxxxxx> 

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