[ILUG] Checking for an open port

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 08:25:44PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Ray Kelly thought:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Conor Daly wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know of a site that I can ask to check a particular port.  I'm
> > trying to open a port in my firewall but I have to to and fro from work to
> > check it out.  There must be a site out there where I can enter my IP and
> > a port number to try a connect attempt.
> 
> 
> There used to be a feature like this buried somewhere on
> http://www.sysinternals.com Now it was well over a year ago since I last
> looked at it so I'm not sure if it's still there or not, but it's worth a
> shot.
> 
>         Ray ...

couldn't find anything there but I found just the tool I needed at

http://www.djesi.ba/djesi/securiteam/ps/ps.php3

This scanned the ports I had opened in the firewall, gave me hits in the
logs and showed up on the box to which I'd redirected the ports.

Cool!

Thanks,

Conor
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)
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