Hi Ian, > I am looking for a windows compatible utility or method, preferably > command line, where I can verify whether a port on an ip address is > reachable or not. I want to be able to do individual ports > and not port scans. Say for instance I wish to verify that port 677 > is closed to traffic on ip address Ex. 172.16.0.1, I'm looking for a > utility that would do something like:
> Check 172.16.0.1 port 677 how about a quite simple "telnet 172.16.0.1 677" issued from the command line? > and tell me whether that port was reachable. Command times out / reports an error: port closed Telnet connects: well, there's something listening on that particular port... and may even be greeting you with an identifying banner. [...] > There may be a simple way to do this... maybe someone's got an even simpler solution? cu :) David B. -- Thank you for calling $PROVIDER helpdesk. If your cupholder is broken, please press 1. If you want an actual knowledgable support person, please enter the IP representation of a /28 netmask. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
