-=> On 10-29-14 14:13, 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: jmasters{at}wunderground.com                              *
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 to root-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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