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I run an "internal" set of bastion hosts that are gateways into a system that runs telnet. This internal system is able to run SSH, but connections stop around 100 because of OS limits. We need to support 400-500 logins, and that has to be telnet. Everybody connecting has to go through these bastions, including VPN users.

I recently built an nspawn container with tinysshd server, with a .profile that execs telnet to the relevant system on login.

We had previously used an old version of Microfocus Reflections (terminal emulation) with stunnels deployed on all the clients and bastions. That was not containerized, but the server stunnels were set to chroot() on startup.

I recently was forced to support the latest version of Reflections, and since it doesn't support chacha-poly, I also built dropbear SSH server just for them. Reflections is very expensive (~$500/seat), and the best that it supports is aes256-ctr, using Tatu Ylonen's commercial ssh.com (which appears to be abandonware). I really hope we can get rid of that.




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