[ale] telnet test

[James P. Kinney III]

nc -z <hostname> 23

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 20:55 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Asif E. wrote:
> > How about using dummy login credentials and allowing it to fail?
> 
> That would produce failed login security events on the remote system, 
> thus triggering an IDS somewhere.
> 
> All I really want to do is test for something listening on port 23, 
> nothing more.
> 
> Still, thanks anyway.
> 
> -Jim P.
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