I'm getting lost. I just d/l netcat but am unsure of where to unpack it to
so that it will be usable. I am so sorry I'm being a hastle.
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> hmmmmm.... nc isn't on my system I even ran apt-get update and tried
> apt-get install.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> then I suppose I'll use netcat. I suppose I put 'nc- p 5050' in a file
>> somewhere. Could someone tell me which file?
>> funny.... reading the man page for nc (trying to figure out how to get it
>> to work) was a hoot! the copyright section is rather entertaining. check it
>> out!
>>
>> here is the excerpt I was talking about:
>>
>> COPYRIGHT
>> Netcat is entirely my own creation, although plenty of other code
>> was
>> used as examples. It is freely given away to the Internet
>> community in
>> the hope that it will be useful, with no restrictions except
>> giving
>> credit where it is due. No GPLs, Berkeley copyrights or any of
>> that
>> nonsense. The author assumes NO responsibility for how anyone uses
>> it.
>> If netcat makes you rich somehow and you're feeling generous, mail
>> me a
>> check. If you are affiliated in any way with Microsoft Network,
>> get a
>> life. Always ski in control. Comments, questions, and patches to
>> hob‐
>> bit@avian.org.
>>
>> NOTES
>> Some port names in /etc/services contain hyphens -- netcat
>> currently
>> will not correctly parse those unless you escape the hyphens with
>> back‐
>> slashes (e.g. "netcat localhost 'ftp\-data'").
>>
>> BUGS
>> Efforts have been made to have netcat "do the right thing" in all
>> its
>> various modes. If you believe that it is doing the wrong thing
>> under
>> whatever circumstances, please notify me and tell me how you
>> think it
>> should behave. If netcat is not able to do some task you think
>> up,
>> minor tweaks to the code will probably fix that. It provides a
>> basic
>> and easily-modified template for writing other network
>> applications,
>> and I certainly encourage people to make custom mods and send in
>> any
>> improvements they make to it. Continued feedback from the Internet
>> com‐
>> munity is always welcome!
>>
>> EXAMPLES
>> For several netcat recipes, please see
>> /usr/share/doc/netcat/README.gz
>> and /usr/share/doc/netcat/README.Debian.gz.
>>
>> AUTHOR
>> This manual page was written by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> and
>> Robert
>> Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>, cribbing heavily from Netcat's README
>> file.
>>
>> Netcat was written by a guy we know as the Hobbit <
>> hobbit@avian.org>.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Ed <plug@0x1b.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Squid is a proxy server found at http://www.squid-cache.org/
>>> I would guess that apt-get thinks of it as squid-cache.
>>>
>>> Unless you already have Squid (doesn't sound like it) already set up -
>>> this is a bit over the top just to let port 5050 past the firewall +
>>> NAT.
>>> If you have a home network, Squid is a good way to control access to
>>> the Internet. If you have one computer on a broadband connection, then
>>> just opening port 5050 should be enough, add forwarding if you have
>>> NAT setup. Squid is a heavy service, other tunneling tools exist like
>>> nc (aka netcat) or ssh or stunnel that will be much easier to set up.
>>>
>>> Once you are set up, you should check to see which service you have
>>> listening at port 5050 with something like "netstat -ta" or wireshark,
>>> etc
>>>
>>> Happy Holidays - Ed
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