[ale] lightweight testing for remote services

[hne at hopnet.net (Keith Hopkins)]

Cory T. Echols wrote:
> On 03/21, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> 
>>Anyone know a lightweight way to test if a service
>>(dns,http,ssh,insert-your-favorite-protocol-here) is being serviced on
>>a remote server?
> 
> You could use netcat (nc) with the -z flag.  I'm not an experienced
> benchmarker by any means, by my own rudimentary testing shows it to be a
> decent amount lighter than an nmap invocation.
> 

netcat -z -n is perfect for this!

-- 
Found in Tokyo,
   Keith


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