[ale] telnet test

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Apr 21 08:10:23 EDT 2006


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)

It was an example near the bottom :)
> 
> 
> 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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