No, I meant that he could use telnet to do a poor-man's port-scan.  He
didn't want to use nmap, so instead he could just telnet to port 80 or 110
or whatever to see if he gets a response.
~M

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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Craig White wrote:

> Matt Alexander wrote:
> >
> > Telnet?
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Carl Parrish wrote:
> >
> > > Is there anything like nmap on a *default* install of Redhat? I guess I
> > > don't really need all the features of nmap. I just need to figure out if
> > > a port is open and if its been active. Problem is I didn't set the
> > > server up and don't know what's installed. any ideas of tools I should
> > > look for? Or should I just install something? Is there any way to look
> > > up past activity on a port?
> > >
> > > Carl P.
> ------
> by default, telnet server daemon is not turned on in RH 7.1 / 7.2
>
> the first thing you should do is ipchains -L and iptables -L - to see
> what ports are blocked.
>
> then you should netstat -an to see what ports are listening
>
> and finally, you can install nmap - if you don't find it on the cd's
> distributed by RH - which I am too lazy to check right now, you are
> certain to find it on freshmeat.net or
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/i386/
>
> Craig
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