R.I.P. Mats Birch

I have received very sad words that Mats Birch passed away in May 2019. He was truly an original character and also one of the persons behind “M” in the “JAM message base” design. I first met Mats in FidoNet circles many (!) years ago. …

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Using nmap to “ping” remote ports

nmap -p 443 site.com nmap -p 21,22,2222,80,443 site.com nmap -p 50-100 site.com nmap is a very versatile tool for analyzing remote hosts. Given the above examples, nmap will return the scanned ports’ status as open, closed, filtered, and so on.