[Techtalk] [emmajane@xtrinsic.com: testing open ports]

[mmp_fox at bellsouth.net]

nmap should do the trick (or nmap-fe if you have loaded nmap-frontend, which is a nice X Windows interface and a bit more intuitive to use!)

Barb Fox

> 
> From: Emma Jane Hogbin <emmajane at xtrinsic.com>
> Date: 2004/05/28 Fri AM 09:59:45 EDT
> To: TechTalk -- LinuxChix <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Subject: [Techtalk] [emmajane at xtrinsic.com: testing open ports]
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm working on a web site that includes streamed rich media files. I need
> a way to test to see which ports the user can access if they're behind a
> firewall. I'm guess that I need to try and send them an object (a picture
> maybe?) on one of the ports I need information about and then see if the
> picture is received or not. This needs to test the user's open ports, not 
> the server's though.
> 
> There must be some kind of script already written that can do this for me
> (Perl package, maybe?).
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated,
> emma
> 
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> Emma Jane Hogbin
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