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You want nc (usually with -v) or socat. telnet is muscle memory for a lot of people (myself included sometimes) but it's a strictly inferior choice these days f
by quotemstr 9mo ago
You want nc (usually with -v) or socat. telnet is muscle memory for a lot of people (myself included sometimes) but it's a strictly inferior choice these days for poking arbitrary plaintext services.
- doubled112 9mo agoAs long as it works, it doesn’t really matter for a quick test. I find myself using curl telnet://server:port too often these days because telnet and nc don’t get installed.