Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Many organizations forbid the installation of a telnet client. In a pinch, you can substitute Linux's ability to write directly to the network drivers. E.g., say you wanted to check for a response from Google's web servers, doing something like:
Many organizations forbid the installation of a telnet client. In a pinch, you can substitute Linux's ability to write directly to the network drivers. E.g., say you wanted to check for a response from Google's web servers, doing something like:
Would get you back:
Other services yield similarly. Want to test SSH connectivity:
Should get you something like:
Similarly, if you're using SSL-protected services, using
openssl
'ss_client
function is super-helpful.