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telnet

  • Old and unsecured connection between computers
  • Similar to ssh!
  • telnet package must be installed. It does not come on linux out of the box
  • sudo apt install telnet
# Telnet an IP and port
telnet `ip` `port`
telnet mywebsite.com 443

# Set escape character
echo X | telnet -e X localhost 3306 # MySQL connection