I know its a stupid question but I'm new to this website hosting thing.

Its a dos like console that lets you admin. your server through text commands

ahh ok thanks.

Originally posted by HostBoy
I know its a stupid question but I'm new to this website hosting thing.

Hi Hostboy,

The question you have asked is not stupid but it is important. Everybody must have ask this question to some one in starting and you should not feel ashamed of:-)

Here is an EXCELLENT site on telnet:

http://www.orst.edu/aw/tutorials/telnet/

--Tina

TelNet is TelephonyNetworking :)

"Telnet

Telnet is the way you can access someone else's computer, assuming they have given you permission. (Such a computer is frequently called a host computer.) More technically, Telnet is a user command and an underlying TCP/IP protocol for accessing remote computers. The Web or Hypertext Transfer Protocol protocol and the File Transfer Protocol protocol allow you to request specific files from remote computers, but not to actually be logon as a user of that computer. With Telnet, you log on as a regular user with whatever privileges you may have been granted to the specific application and data on that computer.
A Telnet command request looks like this (the computer name is made-up):

telnet the.libraryat.harvard.edu

The result of this request would be an invitation to log on with a userid and a prompt for a password. If accepted, you would be logged on like any user who used this computer every day.

Telnet is most likely to be used by program developers and anyone who has a need to use specific applications or data located at a particular host computer."

Think of telnet as a plan old-fashion text terminal. Very useful for doing shell commands.