[ale] lightweight testing for remote services

[stephen at phynp6.phy-astr.gsu.edu (Stephen Leonard)]

Keith Hopkins <hne at hopnet.net> writes:

> Hi folks,
> 
>   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?

Mon is a nice (robust) tool for monitoring remote services.  It
may not be lighter than your nmap script, but it provides a nice
way to test if services are alive (like pulling an index page to
test http).  It also has several other features such as automatic
paging.

http://www.kernel.org/software/mon

hth,
stephen
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