[Coco] MysticBBS

[RETRO Innovations]

On 6/26/2017 7:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2017 20:09:31 Gregory Law wrote:
>
>> The port number should be specified in the -p parameter like this.
>>
>> ssh Mystic.dynu.net -p 2310
>>
> That appears to work, but whats the diff between ssh Mystic.dynu.net -p
> 2310,
>
> and ssh Mystic.dynu.net:2310?  Thats how people get into this machine
> using http protocol.  Difference in routers and port forwarding I guess.
the http protocol stipulates a URI nomenclature, but ssh was designed as 
a replacement for telnet and rlogin, which do not know about URIs, as 
they were developed in the 1970s and 1980s, prior to Berners-Lee and HTTP.

Some newer applications allow :port as a shortcut to a command line arg, 
but ssh does not.

Jim