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No. I'm not writing a script to test an open port. netcat is prob the best alternative, but its also not installed by default.
by IronWolve 4y ago
No. I'm not writing a script to test an open port. netcat is prob the best alternative, but its also not installed by default.
- fyver 4y agoNeither is telnet.
- themoonisachees 4y agoTelnet is installed by default in most distros.
- tmtvl 4y agoWell it ain't in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch, or Gentoo. Though I don't know which software is installed out of the box in Fedora, Debian, the many Debian derivatives, and all of the smaller distros out there; so you may still be right.
- HankB99 4y agoTelnet is not in the default Debian or Raspbian installs either.
- jghn 4y agoThis is getting to be less and less true. `telnet MACHINE PORT` was my go to quick connectivity test for a couple of decades. And increasingly that's being replaced to me having to think about the right non-telnet way to do it.