[ale] telnet test

[usmpiano at aim.com]

actually you'd need to use nmap -sT <remotehost> -p 23

-----Original Message-----
From: James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:36:45 -0400
Subject: Re: [ale] telnet test

  On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 16:25 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Whats a good way to test (from within a shell script) for telnet
> availability on a remote host?  Would something like netcat be able 
to
> do this?
>
nmap -sT <remotehost> -p 21

> Tia,
>
> -Jim P.
>
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