Thursday, 23 April 2015

How to check if a port is open for remote system

How to check if a port is open for remote system

nmap or netcat, both of which are available for Windows, Linux

For example, check for telnet on a known ip:
  nmap -A IP-address -p 23


For example, look for open ports from 4900-4910 on host.example.com:
  nc -z host.example.com 4900-4910