On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > Of course Jacob is right, a similar tool like netcat (nc) works just as well or > better. Thanks for the reminder, I'll have to explore and use netcat and > netsed more. I think netcat IS the "advanced tool" you're refering to Ben! > > There are some appliances such as switches, routers, print servers that have a > telnet only management server. You are right to tell people to avoid using > telnet to remotely connect to a server to do work when ssh is available. An > admin's job usually encompases more than just sshing to a remote server. It > includes regular troubleshooting of all kinds of network services. Telnet or > netcat is the "TCP/IP swiss army knife" attached to the admin's belt. As the > nc(1) page says. > nc -> net cat nsed -> networks stream editor ngrep -> net grep dig -> dns information gathering
and of course there's always writing socket code by hand to test things... -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
