[ale] telnet test

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 20 21:42:11 EDT 2006


Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Don't count me out yet :)
> 
> [cfowler at shuttle ~]$ cat </dev/tcp/192.168.2.103/23
> bash: connect: No route to host
> bash: /dev/tcp/192.168.2.103/23: No route to host
> [cfowler at shuttle ~]$ 

Interesting.  I do see a flaw in that if there is a listening host, then 
the connection remains open.

> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/devref1.html
> 
> All done avec bash!

which may not be on all platforms/hosts.  :-(


Still, quite a find Chris.

-Jim P.



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