On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:20 AM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 16 June 2016 at 14:23, Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazq...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Christopher wrote: > >> > >>> So, I'm trying to understand what's going on with netcat. If anybody > can > >>> enlighten me, I'd appreciate it. Here's what I've found so far: > >> > >> Original netcat is obsolete, try socat or nmap-ncat. > > > > I don't think this was the original netcat but had been replaced by > > the openbsd version a long time ago. > > Yes. I believe you are right. It looks like nc was the openbsd version, and nc6 was a fork of that? In either case, it seems they aren't needed, due to nmap-ncat. > Want me to ask the netcat author? i'll probably see him on Saturday. > > I admit that I find the simplicity of netcat's user interface to be > much more graceful than socat's feature filled but excess complexity. > I agree, but it looks like both nc and nc6 are more directly replaced by nmap-ncat. Presumably it adopts at least some of the simplicity of the prior incarnations of netcat. My conclusion: nc and nc6 should be retired. One thing I noticed was that nc and nc6 are listed in comps (security-lab group), but I'm not sure the packages even exist in f24. I guess that'll have to be fixed for a proper retirement (instead of the orphan->6weeks->retire path they went through).
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