Re: Bug#61792: marked as done (telnet: Can't type non-ascii chars.)
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:15:02PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 2. If -8 is used to connect to a Solaris 7 system or Redhat 6.1
> > system, it won't work. Is this because the remote telnetd breaks the
> > RFCs?
>
> Unfortunately AFAIK there isn't an RFC specifying the BINARY option.
RFC 856, Telnet Binary Transmission. (Status: STANDARD)
RFC1123 says "Every Telnet implemementation MUST support the Binary option".
(section 3.3.3)
In any case, a telnetd should simply refuse an option it doesn't
recognize, rather than breaking. The telnet client, in turn, should
be able to cope with having any option refused.
Richard Braakman
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