Questions tagged [netcat]
Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
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How to capture UDP traffic so it can be piped to grep
I'm trying to capture UDP traffic which is being sent as StatsD metrics (on port 8125).
The most simple approach I tried is to run nc -ul 8125 which prints the metrics to the terminal...but they are ...
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Reverse Shell not appearing on netcat
Using kali VM with a php reverse shell.
I can put the reverse shell on the server but the shell will not appear on my netcat listener.
The server I am trying to get into is an Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) ...
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How to Create Persistent Ncat Client
I am trying to tail a log file from one Linux server over to another with ncat and keep the connection alive.
On the server with the file I have this command running from a bash script:
nohup tail -...
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Why does Kong use netcat?
There is a Kong gateway for a few microservices. When I see the htop on Kong server, there is a
nc -wl -u kong-hf.mashape.com [port]
which uses 100% CPU of one core all the time. And this slowly ...
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Spawn background process from ncat
How can ncat be used to spawn a process in the background? For example:
ncat -lp 2342 -c "setsid sleep 5 &"
As I understand, setsid and & will make the process run in the background but ncat ...
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Routing TCP packets to a local UDP port
A third party server sends UDP packets to an EC2 instance we've set up and I'm trying to route those packets to my local machine.
The client sends these packets to port 8975
To that effect I first ...
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Simple netcat Responder
Trying to create a simple netcat responder:
The "server" would be:
$ while true; do { ./secret.sh; } | sudo netcat -k -q -1 -l 123; done
secret.sh is:
#!/bin/bash
read line
if [ "$line" == "open" ]...
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nc prints (?). What does (?) mean?
When I use nc to test a port as followed, it prints out a result with '(?)' in it. I've looked up the man page and also online but I can't find an answer. Can someone please shed some lights? Thanks.
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Netcat gives different responses based on IP I give it
I'm currently trying to diagnose why my build of Libreoffice online keeps giving '504 Timed Out' errors on my nginx reverse proxy. I shutdown the entire daemon, hoping to see an error along the lines ...
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Connection refused from localhost to localhost
I started a tcp listener using nc -l 127.0.0.1 900 and then attempted to connect to it using nc 127.0.0.1 900 when I got the connection refused error. The same happens when connecting using telnet. ...
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Why am I only achieving 2.5Gbps over a 10Gbe direct connection between 2 machines?
I have 2 machines directly connected to each other with a 7 foot Cat6a ethernet cable (included in the box of the NIC cards). The PCIe x4 NIC I bought and in both machines is this: https://www.amazon....
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Achieving very fast (300+MB/sec) file transfer on Linux
I'm working with high end hardware, however I'm hitting cpu bottlenecks in all situations when attempting to move large amounts of data.
Specifically, I'm moving large virtual machine image (VHD) ...
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SSH tunnel and reverse SSH tunnel at the same time on the same port
I have a computer A, a server B (Azure VM) and a second computer C. I want to connect from A to C through the server B.
Setup:
A: ssh -i location_of_private_key -L 12000:public_IP_of_B:20000 user@...
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netcat host not found when listening
i am trying to connect two hosts using netcat. i have downloaded netcat for windows, but when i run the command nc -L -vv -p 4444, it fails with the error nc: forward host lookup failed: h_errno 11001:...
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Send data recieved by netcat to script
I'm trying to take data I receive over a netcat connection to a script that will send each line to another server via a curl post command.
Heres where I am.
This works: nc -lk 9272 > test.log
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EHLO returns nothing with postfix initialized working on port 25
So I reinstalled postfix several times because of different issues.
Turns out it starts well and seems to be working on port 25:
I make netstat -nltp | grep 25
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 ...
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Netcat connection refused apache2 localhost
I have installed webserver (apache) but I can't seem to make netcat connect to it.
$ curl localhost:80 | head
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
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Connect to an SSH server over an HTTP proxy using plink and netcat
I'm trying to connect to an SSH server from a Windows PC behind a corporate HTTP proxy.
The trick works under Debian using OpenSSH client with ncat from the nmap package, but it does not work under ...
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Restore linux partition from remote server
I have a running server with /dev/sda1 partition and a remote server with /dev/sda1 partion also.
I want to clone the partition of running server to remote server.
I want to try this:
On remote ...
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How can i set the source port for SSH on unbuntu server? [closed]
I am creating a web challenge, and due to a firewall, i need to be able to set a static port for the SSH source port for it to go through the firewall.
Is their anyway to do this using maybe netcat ...
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Link VPS Dedicated IP / Port to Internal Tinc VPN IP Port
After a couple of days research I've completely rewritten my question to make it easier to answer, and hopefully clearer of what I'm looking for.
I have an Ubuntu 18.04 VPS server with a dedicated ...
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Can I use netcat for centralized logging?
I have multiple Apache servers and I want to centralize their access logs. I wonder if I can use named pipes and netcat for that, however I am afraid that 2 things may happen:
The central log will be ...
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How to send binary data in netcat to an already established connection?
I can do the following to send binary data in netcat:
echo -e '\x80' | nc host port
But I don't want to do it like this, what I want is to connect to a server:
nc 192.168.1.115 12345
And then send ...
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How to connect netcat from one local computer to another local computer
I want to connect two computers using netcat that are on the different subnets
The problem is when I start Netcat to listen on one computer, I am unable to connect to it from another computer which ...
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Some clients time out when making a simple TCP proxy with netcat
I have made a simple TCP proxy that rewrtites requests using netcat like so:
nc -q -1 -k -l 8080 < myfifo | sed -u 's/something/something_else/' | nc -q -1 example.com 80 > myfifo
However, ...
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How to write and read from the same file using two netcats?
I'd like to use a file as a temporary buffer to connect two netcat processes. I need to use a buffer because data is sent and requested on each end at different intervals. I want to use a file instead ...
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Check if HTTP Methods have been Allowed and Enabled on Localhost
I’m running Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) on a RHEL system. My LAMP is running on localhost.
I want to check if the HTTP methods:
POST
GET
PUT
DELETE
are allowed and enabled.
I’ve read that they can be ...
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openVPN server doesn't listen to client through netcat
I am working on a ROS project for which is required a VPN connection between a client (my pc in this case) and the server (aws server).
I used openVPN to create a tun0 interface through which both ...
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ncat on UDP protocol (RH 7)
I'm resuming the discussion "Check if remote host/port is open - Can't use GNU Netcat nor NMap - RHEL 7".
I can't obtain the correct result because on my rh versions (5.6 and 7.1) there isn't the path ...
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Socat interacting with specific host (reverse shell) from mutiple clients/connections
I have a threaded c/c++ application that gives a pty reverse shell installed on multiple linux clients they all connect back to same server/port
now I need to find a reliable method to interact with a ...
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How can I tunnel multicast traffic?
I am trying to receive multicast on 1 machine, forward it to another machine, and then replay it on that machine.
test_env: the machine which has access to the original multicast stream
mcast_sender: ...
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Why I can only send 3 row via netcat on UDP port?
I am new to this command I am sending a file data on UDP 9415 port .
--> I have file which has 1000 rows
--> I am firing here IP is my destination IP
cat test1 | netcat -u 172.x.x.x 9514
--> Now ...
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How can I test network connectivity to a Keberos KDC (UDP/88)
How can I test network connectivity to a Keberos KDC (UDP/88)? Does Kerberos have a standard way to communicate that gives any output?
HTTP for example,
nc -v google.com 80
GET
will dump the ...
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How can I capture the exit status of `nc` when run from `timeout`?
I want to test connectivity to an arbitrary host using netcat. It seems the -w argument does not actually close the connection after 5 seconds. (This is on Ubuntu 14.04 and netcat-traditional 1.10-40)....
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iptables rule between networks is not working
I have a scenario where a router connects 2 networks, so I have this machines with this interfaces:
The virtual machine 1 that work as a router:
eth1: 193.136.200.254
eth2: 192.168.10.254
eth3: 24....
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liptables ssh rule is not working
I have 2 virtual machines using virtual box. One virtual machine work as a router. Im trying to drop all communications entering the router machine, excpet for some services. The interfaces ips that I ...
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test iptables rules using netcat is not working
I have 4 virtual machines using virtual box. One virtual machine work as a router that connects 3 networks. Im trying to drop all communications entering the router machine, excpet for some services. ...
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Why does tcpdump see a reply, but not netcat
I'm debugging a OpenVPN site-to-site connection using UDP in netcat.
I can get packets to flow in one direction (host A->host B), but not the reverse one.
root@hosta:~# nc 10.0.3.2 1234 -u
root@...
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Localization - agnostic output for netcat
I would like to use netcat to test if some ports are listening or not but, since the command will be executed in machines that will have languages different than English, it's not a great idea to grep ...
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netcat, reopen TCP socket
I have a bash script:
#!/bin/bash
while :
do
nc -l -p 30003 | python3 script.py
done
I want that listening works all time.
nc localhost 30003 # works, fine
*type something*
Ctrl+C
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Why does a port I've set to allow all incoming traffic + edge traversal, still block or filter incoming traffic?
I opened Port 4444 through windows 7 firewall to allow all traffic from all IPs and protocols, including allowing edge traversal. On that machine, a netcat listener is set up to listen on port 4444. I ...
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Limiting NetCat listening to specific network
I would like to get your help to figure out how to use NetCat to listen to a specific port accepting connection only from the hosts in a specific network.
I have a server that I would like to share a ...
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Why do netcat scans for UDP ports always succeed?
I'm trying to verify that a couple of our servers can communicate via certain ports before migrating some of our services to them, and that they're not blocked by our organizations firewall ACLs.
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How to debug a “connection refused” error with tshark?
I'm trying to establish a simple TCP connection between two machines in the same subnet (wireless network). The tool used is netcat.
On machine A, I start a listener:
nc -l -p 4506
On machine B, I ...
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Check if remote host/port is open - Can't use GNU Netcat nor NMap - RHEL 7
At work, the infrastructure team is rolling out new VMs with RHEL7 installed as the base OS. This particular image comes with the nmap-ncat version of Netcat and does not have NMap installed. We are ...
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multiplexing a TCP connection through a dumb shell connection?
I am connecting to a VPN whose gateway is sufficiently misconfigured that basically the only useful thing I can do with it is to ssh to a specific Linux host set up for my usage inside the VPN, and ...
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make netcat listen for multiple UDP packets
If I run a simple UDP listener like this:
nc -l -u -p 1234
Then I appear to only get the first inbound UDP packet. For example if I run:
$ echo abc | nc -u localhost 1234
["abc" appears in output ...
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Check if iptables rules are working
I have three virtualboxs.
1) Virtual machine VM-A that works as a router with two interfaces:
eth0 - 10.160.10.254
eth1 - 172.10.0.254
2) Virtual machine VM-B that works as an internal network ...
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Proxy to add CORS headers with netcat
I'm looking for a little script using nc which will be used to add CORS headers (at least Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *) in order for my local ionic dev application to access a remote webservice.
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Can't connect to socket from outside
I have a problem on my server when I start an application that listen to a port: I can connect to it from the same machine, but not from the ouside world.
I noticed this problem when trying to create ...
