telnet-proxy(1)

telnet-proxy1

Create a telnet debugging proxy

Usage

telnet-proxy <remote address> <remote port> <local port>

Overview

telnet-proxy creates a single-connection proxy listening on local port which forwards connections to remote address on port remote port. All TELNET commands will be logged to stdout for debugging purposes.

Only a single active connection is allowed at any given time. However, after a client has disconnected, another client may connect through the proxy.

telnet-proxy is capable of transparently decoding and reencoding streams compressed with MCCP2. It also includes specialized decoders and debug output for NEW-ENVIRON, TTYPE, ZMP, and MSSP subnegotiation commands.

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

  1. 7–13

From libtelnet-utils 0.23-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.