[cisb102su01] Re: CISB 102: Lesson 4 Question 4 Telnetting
- From: Humvee413@xxxxxxx
- To: <cisb102su01@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:35:03 EDT
Telnet was big back in the old days (1994). Most isp's offered TELNET/SHELL
access as a standard feature in a webhosting package. Gradually this has began
to disappear because it takes a lot more monitoring of web servers to maintain
security on servers where users have REAL (non-virtual) accounts. This cuts
into ISP profits and thus today you have many huge, generic ISP clones that
rely on software as their only means of security and have substituted weak
interfaces such as web-shells and cgi-wrappers for the real thing. This is
about like confusing a garden burger for a filet mingon. Telnet is by far the
MOST POWERFUL interface you can have into a web server. Telnet is not
available for NT users but is available on some of the better hosting
companies.
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