[RossLUG] Thoughts on ssh and security.

[Jonathan Archer]

James,

Reason I asked was that I wondered if tcping would work, which
essentially pings a port...

just tried it and it works a treat! nice!

Jon

On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 22:29 +0000, James Lawrie wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> Yeah telnet is just to open the port, anything which does that would work. Checking the code I don't think it even checks if it's a TCP port, which I guess is a bug.
> 
> A friend did something similar just using iptables and ~/.ssh/config which is much simpler, I'll see if I can find it tomorrow.
> 
> James
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