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Old 08-28-2013, 01:06 PM   #1
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Anonymous telnet and ftp sites in internet?


I had googled to find any anonymous site for telnet and ftp where I can login as guest. A few links in goole mentioned many sites but nothing worked.
May anyone share me with the address of the site for telnet and ftp where I can log and run commands.
 
Old 08-28-2013, 01:55 PM   #2
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Likely nowhere for telnet. That is considered too insecure, and not having a password to a shell account is just asking for trouble.

Anonymous ftp servers are around, but it depends on what you really want to do. Almost any Linux kernel distribution supports anonymous ftp (the login is "anonymous", the password is usually just an email address).
 
Old 08-28-2013, 03:38 PM   #3
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What kind of "commands" you want to run? For example you can login to "demo.mt.lv" with login "demo" and without password to test Mikrotik OS. If you like "Star Wars" login here "towel.blinkenlights.nl". Here you can play nethack "nethack.alt.org". There are many bbs systems by telnet available.

Anonymous FTPs are many, for example "ftp.ubuntu.com", "ftp.task.gda.pl". Say what you looking for.
 
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What kind of "commands" you want to run? For example you can login to "demo.mt.lv" with login "demo" and without password to test Mikrotik OS. If you like "Star Wars" login here "towel.blinkenlights.nl". Here you can play nethack "nethack.alt.org". There are many bbs systems by telnet available.

Anonymous FTPs are many, for example "ftp.ubuntu.com", "ftp.task.gda.pl". Say what you looking for.
Thank you very much for sharing these info. That helped a lot.
I inetended to get addresses for telnet / ftp sites only to gain experiernce and get a good feeling of telnet/ftp and how they work. But only after visiting the 2 sites you provided for telnet, I feel that there is much more I can do and explore.

Can you please share for telnet site of UNIX/linux machine so that I w'd get experience and nice feeling of working in remote UNIX/Linux machine?

Also, I w'd be pleased if I can get any ftp site where I get more permissions like making directory, uploading files from my local machine to that remote one,etc.

So, as told earlier, I intend to get good feeling and experience of working with telnet/ftp and also you can share your experience and knowledge that w'd help me to explore more in these areas.
 
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As I said earlier, there are none that are generally available.

Granting shell access is a security failure.

Granting unrestricted ftp access is a security failure...

and both can get you sued as soon as someone puts an audio/video file on the system that you don't own.
 
Old 08-29-2013, 05:48 AM   #6
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If it's for learning then set up another computer locally with linux and treat THAT as your remote server. Then you can give yourself any access you want and play with any software/protocol that you want to explore.

As jpollard says, any form of "open" access is a total security nightmare, that's why there are so few that are even offering the simplest of services.

A VPS can also be picked up for under $10 a month, and with that you'd have an internet connected server that you control and again you can explore as both a user and an admin.
 
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Search for shell servers. Its not telnet but should suit your need.
http://shells.red-pill.eu/ a list of free shell servers
 
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Zhjim and TenTenths, thanks for your really valuable info.
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If it's for learning then set up another computer locally with linux and treat THAT as your remote server. Then you can give yourself any access you want and play with any software/protocol that you want to explore.

A VPS can also be picked up for under $10 a month, and with that you'd have an internet connected server that you control and again you can explore as both a user and an admin.
I hope it w'd help me a lot what you told VPS. 1st time I am hearing of VPS but seems w'd sever wonder for me. It seems that I can connect to that (VPS) server via my slow dial up connection and once I log in there I can enjoy high speed internet. Please excuse me if what I though is funny (becz I don't know VPS). I am googling to know it.
Also, as I am in India , can I get VPS?
 
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VPS - Virtual Private Server, basically big hardware that's split up into little chunks for people to rent. Yes, you would get high-speed internet, from your VPS to the rest of the internet, but when you're copying things back to your own machine you'll be limited by the speed of your (dial-up) link.

As for getting a VPS in India, very probably. I'm in Ireland and use http://www.rapidvps.com in the US for a VPS.
 
Old 08-30-2013, 03:36 AM   #10
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VPS - Virtual Private Server, basically big hardware that's split up into little chunks for people to rent. Yes, you would get high-speed internet, from your VPS to the rest of the internet, but when you're copying things back to your own machine you'll be limited by the speed of your (dial-up) link.

As for getting a VPS in India, very probably. I'm in Ireland and use http://www.rapidvps.com in the US for a VPS.
TenTenths, thank you very much for sharing this info of VPS which seems to be a very great possession for me. It may prove for me something that I never imagined. I w'd get my own system with high speed net and then I don't need to get another new computer for me to do my work. Let me try it out.
Befor finalizing on the VPS that I w'd purchase, please look at the below link. I have communicated with this company/site for VPS.
I have to pay by pay pal. Is pay pal secure/genuine as 1 yr back one bank customer care denied me to make any transaction via pay pal.
I am going through the site from where you purchased before finalizing.

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Yes, you would get high-speed internet, from your VPS to the rest of the internet, but when you're copying things back to your own machine you'll be limited by the speed of your (dial-up) link.
That's clear that copying back to my machine w'd be slower. But when I surf in VPS, then the display on my screen won't be affected by my slow speed of dial-up. (my dial up connection speed is 18 kbps while downloading)
Thanks a lot
 
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Befor finalizing on the VPS that I w'd purchase, please look at the below link. I have communicated with this company/site for VPS.
Their VPS offerings on https://www.sitesten.com/cart/vps seem fine, obviously I've no experience of this company so can't say further than that.

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I have to pay by pay pal. Is pay pal secure/genuine as 1 yr back one bank customer care denied me to make any transaction via pay pal.
I've been using PayPal for many years without problems.
 
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Old 08-30-2013, 04:32 AM   #12
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That's clear that copying back to my machine w'd be slower. But when I surf in VPS, then the display on my screen won't be affected by my slow speed of dial-up. (my dial up connection speed is 18 kbps while downloading)
Thanks a lot
What I wanted to ask here is: I log in to VPS, then open a youtube video. See the server w'd receive data of videos perfectly as there the speed is 100MBps. But on my own screen, the video w'd be visible properly and not affected by my slow speed.
 
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What I wanted to ask here is: I log in to VPS, then open a youtube video. See the server w'd receive data of videos perfectly as there the speed is 100MBps. But on my own screen, the video w'd be visible properly and not affected by my slow speed.
So you're now changing what you want to do, from learning about linux on a VPS to trying to use it to get around your slow connection.

Your slow connection will ALWAYS be the bottleneck, if video from youtube is slow now it'll still be slow.
 
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See the server w'd receive data of videos perfectly as there the speed is 100MBps. But on my own screen, the video w'd be visible properly and not affected by my slow speed.
That will not work. To send continously changing screen you need very fast connection, with dialup you will not get enough framerate. You only lose video streaming adventages, like buffering and dynamically changing bitrate and incrase amount of data to send.

You can download youtube videos on your own disk and then watch them offline, for Firefox there is an extension "Video download helper" or "Download YouTube Videos as MP4" and others.

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