[ale] lightweight testing for remote services
Keith Hopkins
hne at hopnet.net
Fri Mar 21 19:59:00 EST 2003
Cory T. Echols wrote:
> On 03/21, Keith Hopkins wrote:
>
>>Anyone know a lightweight way to test if a service
>>(dns,http,ssh,insert-your-favorite-protocol-here) is being serviced on
>>a remote server?
>
> You could use netcat (nc) with the -z flag. I'm not an experienced
> benchmarker by any means, by my own rudimentary testing shows it to be a
> decent amount lighter than an nmap invocation.
>
netcat -z -n is perfect for this!
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Found in Tokyo,
Keith
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