Current Status
As of mid-2010, the Telnet protocol itself has been mostly superseded for remote login. Telnet is popular in various application areas:
- Enterprise networks to access host applications, e.g., on IBM Mainframes.
- Administration of network elements, e.g., in configuring routers on a home network, in commissioning, integration and maintenance of core network elements in mobile communication networks, and many industrial control systems.
- MUD games played over the Internet, as well as talkers, MUSHes, MUCKs, MOOes.
- Telnet Bulletin Board Systems.
- Internet game clubs, like the Internet Chess Club, the Free Internet Chess Server and the Internet Go server.
- Connection to Amateur Radio DX clusters.
- Embedded systems.
- Mobile data collection applications where telnet runs over secure networks
- Troubleshooting and testing of basic TCP functionality between IP endpoints, often as a response to editing firewall rules, initial endpoint configuration, or partial connectivity loss.
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