You want to use something called a portscanner. This is a tool developed by
people who want to break into systems (and their white-hat counterpart,
security specialists) to identify system vulnerabilities. Not being into
this stuff myself, I can't direct you to a site, but if you look around, I
believe they are not hard to find.
At 10:16 AM 5/12/99 +0530, Nayan Jain wrote [in part]:
>SO... I dont have an access into that server, so i cannot check the
>/etc/services and what is available.
>
>Sp to get the servies available on server i try to telnet to specific
>ports to seee if that service is availble or not.
>
>eg: NNTP server for newsgroups run on port 119.
>The server where we have our nntp server(or supposed to have) is not
>listening to nntp requests. SO i was trying to find if it is available on
>any other port.
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