CHAPTER 25. Basic TCP/IP Services and Applications

SOME OF THE MAIN TOPICS IN THIS CHAPTER ARE

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) 404

The Telnet Protocol 419

Using Telnet and FTP with a Firewall 424

The R-Utilities 425

The Finger Utility 431

Other Services and Applications Built on the TCP/IP Suite 433

In the preceding chapter, it was mentioned that TCP/IP usually refers not just to the two protocols represented by its acronym (the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol), but also to other related protocols, services, and applications that were developed to work together. These are referred to as the TCP/IP protocol suite. A wide range of services and applications have been developed to work with TCP/IP, and most implementations ...

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