[ale] telnet test

[James P. Kinney III]

That's pretty slick! It will leave an open connection if there is a
listening process, though. Maybe a fork and a timer with a close/kill
would work.

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:32 -0400, 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 ~]$ 
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/devref1.html
> 
> All done avec bash!
> 
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:25 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Excellent.  JPK wins the cookie.
> > 
> > Thanks Jim.
> > 
> > -Jim P.  (feeling lame because that was probably in the man page)
> > 
> > 
> > James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > 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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