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Index of Subjects On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Dave Wile wrote: > Hello, this is a question regarding telnetting to a site with a port > number behind it. We have a user at Cobequidnet.ns.ca who is attempting > to telnet to the following site: telnet://tapestries.fur.com:2069 > If you just telnet like normal you have no problem but when you add the > port number at the end, the program does not allow this, is this > disabled in the csuite program for a reason or is it just something that > we are missing at Cobequidnet that does not allow this? If there is not > a reason for disabling this how do we enable telnetting to specific > ports? Telnetting to ports is blocked in two places. The first is the one you're running into which is the "no telnet port specifications" block. That is part of the Lynx configuration. in the $CS_ROOT/bin/shell you'll find -restrictions= and one of them will be telnet_port. If you remove this then Lynx no longer complains when you specify a port to telnet to. This one could probably be removed if you have the system resources to handle users telnetting into MUDs, etc. all day. If you decide to remove it, you probably only want to remove it for the non-anonymous section. The second place is in the CSuite telnet client rtelnet which prevents connections to any ports below 1024. This is to help system security by not letting people telnet directly into SMTP servers, etc. This probably shouldn't be changed, there typically isn't a reason to telnet into ports that low. Ian ------------------------------------------- Ian White BC Community Networks Association (BCCNA) email: iwhite@victoria.tc.ca phone: 250-727-2489
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