[84506] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mail service with no mx (was - Re: Computer systems blamed for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Wed Sep 14 06:19:09 2005
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:15:36 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Roy Badami <roy@gnomon.org.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <17191.24126.714477.113319@giles.gnomon.org.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Roy Badami wrote:
>
> Perhaps because most telnet clients will attempt telnet option
> negotiation?
No they won't. I don't have any copies of BSD to hand from before 1987,
but even then Berkeley Telnet would not do unsolicited option negotiation
if you specified a port number.
Tony.
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