Ever needed to detect open ports on a remote machine for purely altruistic reasons? Once again, netcat to the rescue! You can easily scan a range of ports on a given IP address using our networking swiss army knife. You want to find out if any ports are open between ports 1024 and 2048 on [...]
From time to time, you might need to throw together a simple socket server in your terminal for testing or debugging purposes. Luckily, this is easy using the networking swiss army knife that is netcat. Let’s see an example. Kim wants to listen locally on port 1024 for all traffic and simply dump the output [...]