Re: SMTP Banner info

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, good on you.

At 07:31 PM 4/20/02 +1000, you wrote:

>Hello Vernon,
>
>You wrote:
> >If you use the QIBM_QTG_DEVINIT exit point, you can know what server port
> >is being connected to. This way you know if telnet is not coming in to the
> >well-defined port for telnet. You could turn these off - there's some kind
> >of 'service not available' message, I think.
>
>While I think your suggestion of changing the TCP message description will
>probably work, I would be very surprised if the above suggestion works.
>The QIBM_QTG_DEVINIT exit point is a Telnet SERVER exit point invoked when
>a client connects to the Telnet server.  It has no effect on telnet
>sessions to non-Telnet servers (e.g., SMPT, HTTP, etc.) because:
>
>         a) The Telnet server is not involved even though a Telnet client is
>used.
>         b) No AS/400 device is involved when connecting to a non-Telnet
>server (unless that server itself opens a virtual terminal)
>
>Regards,
>Simon Coulter.
>
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