[nos-bbs] A bad piece of pi...

[Bill Vodall]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:10 PM, jerome schatten <romers at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Agreed Bob, and I appreciate what you’re saying… but I only use telnet inside the lan not for any purpose to or from the internet. And normally I have each computer on the lan locked down with an iptables firewall.
>
> I guess this particular problem has become an academic exercise for me — I do not like not understanding things — in looking hard to see why telnetting ‘into’ this particular pi doesn’t work, even telnetting into itself, I have an opportunity to learn something new. It’s a good day, I figure, when I can learn something new <g>.

Was there a resolution?   It sounded like there was no telnet server installed.

In the early days the telnet service was there by default but now that
it's such a security risk it has to be manually installed.

73
Bill