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Commands tagged telnet

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Terminal - Commands tagged telnet - 7 results
telnet 0 <port>
2012-11-16 03:38:49
User: somaddict
Functions: telnet
Tags: Network ssh bash ping shell shortcut telnet var networking speed loopback
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Test against loopback address with the 0.0.0.0 default route.

Super fast way to ftp/telnet/netcat/ssh/ping your loopback address for testing. The default route 0.0.0.0 is simply reduced to 0.

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(echo -e '\xfe'; sleep 1) |telnet -L $HOSTIP 25565 2>/dev/null |awk -F'\xa7' '$2 {print "users: "$2"/"$3;}'
2011-11-07 02:28:03
User: Mozai
Functions: awk echo sleep telnet
Tags: awk telnet minecraft
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Get number of users on a minecraft server

I'm flat-out surprised that minecraft directory services require servers install multiple modifications to their server code, when the directories could fetch this information on their own.

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nc -z <IP> <TCP port> OR nc -zu <IP> <UDP port>
2011-04-01 04:08:53
User: frank514
Tags: telnet port
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test connection to a remote IP / port

-z: Specifies that nc should just scan for listening daemons, without sending any data to them

-u: Use UDP instead of the default option of TCP.

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telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666 | sed "s/=== The BOFH Excuse Server ===//" | tr -d '\n' && echo
2011-03-31 05:50:57
User: hintss
Functions: sed telnet tr
Tags: telnet BOFH
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Get a BOFH excuse

Gets a BOFH excuse from the BOFH excuse server (towel.blinkenlights.nl port 666), and passes it through sed and tr to get rid of telnet connection stuff.

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telnet somehost 1234, <ctrl+5> close
2010-04-05 12:10:21
User: xeor
Functions: telnet
Tags: telnet connection
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Disconnect telnet

You are stuck with testing a tcp port using telnet, and must kill the telnet session from another terminal... Or, press ctrl+5 and write close/quit to force the current connection to close..

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nc $telnetserver 23 < $commandfile
2009-08-07 21:32:38
User: flokra
Tags: netcat telnet automatisation
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pipe commands from a textfile to a telnet-server with netcat

sends commands specified in $commandfile to the telnet-server specified by $telnetserver.

to have newlines in $commandfile interpreted as ENTER, save the file in CR+LF (aka "Windows-Textfile") format.

if you want to save the output in a separate file, use:

nc $telnetserver 23 < $commandfile > $resultfile
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telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
2009-03-26 22:59:48
User: Alioth
Functions: telnet
Tags: telnet
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Watch Star Wars via telnet

Use Ctrl-] to stop it.

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