Last Updated: April 27, 2019
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· Lars Van Casteren

netcat

A quick test to check if a firewall port is open between two servers.

On server #1:

$ nc -l <listen_port_here>

On server #2 check if netcat can reach the target_server:

$ nc <target_ip> <target_port_here>

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