[ale] telnet test

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 20 21:25:28 EDT 2006


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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