Bill: maybe I'm chasing a phantom here but what I really want is to check whether the application, process, service (call it whatever) that corresponds to a particular UDP port is up and running on a remote host. I don't really want to send any data, or receive any beyond what may be necessary just to check status. some examples of what I'm after are:
- port 123. which means an ntp process is running. - port 161. an SNMP agent is running. - port 177. an XDMCP graphical login process is up. - port 514. the syslogd daemon is running. my script takes a list of host names and for each one checks if a specified port is up. I know that the nmap program can do what I want but my C isn't up to decoding it. I was hoping to find a simple Perl equivalent. make sense? Jim Lane Sr. Technical Consultant Network Services Toronto Hydro office: (416)-542-2820 cell: (416)-896-8576 _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
