1. telnet - Noun
2. telnet - Verb
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telnet (uncountable)
(computing) A network protocol that enables one computer to communicate with another via the Internet; the program that acts as the client in this situation
telnet (third-person singular simple present telnets, present participle telnetting or telneting, simple past and past participle telnetted or telneted)
(computing, intransitive) To use such a program to make such a connection
As has happened with other early Internet protocols, extensions to the Telnet protocol provide Transport Layer Security (TLS) security and Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) authentication that address the above concerns. Source: Internet
A workable solution is to use a telnet or http proxy server to sit between users and the mainframe to implement secure access to the legacy application. Source: Internet
Historically, Telnet provided access to a command-line interface (usually, of an operating system ) on a remote host, including most network equipment and operating systems with a configuration utility (including systems based on Windows NT ). Source: Internet
Bill Heelan and Peter Deutsch wrote a script allowing people to log in and search collected information using the Telnet protocol at the host "archie. Source: Internet
However, most Telnet implementations do not support these extensions; and there has been relatively little interest in implementing these as SSH is adequate for most purposes. Source: Internet
Any byte with the high bit set was a special Telnet character. Source: Internet