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In 2000 according to www.insecure.org Netcat was voted the second most functional network security tool. Also, in 2003 and 2006 it gained forth place in the same category. Netcat is often referred to as a Swiss-army knife for TCP/IP" , and for a good reason. Just like the multi-function usefulness of the venerable Swiss Army pocket knife, netcat’s functionality is as helpful. Some of its features include port scanning, transferring files, port listening and it can be used a backdoor.
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Developer(s) | *Hobbit*[1] |
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Operating system | UNIX |
Type | Network utility |
License | Permissive free software[2] |
Website | http://netcat.sourceforge.net/ |
Netcat is a computer networking service or reading from and writing network connections using TCP or UDP. Netcat is designed to be a dependable “back-end” device that can be used candidly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and investigation tool, since it can produce almost any kind of correlation you would need and has a number of exciting built-incapabilities.
According to http://nc110.sourceforge.net/, some of netcat's major features are: • • Outbound or inbound connections, TCP or UDP, to or from any ports • Full DNS forward/reverse checking, with appropriate warnings • Ability to use any local source port • Ability to use any locally-configured network source address • Built-in port-scanning capabilities, with randomizer • Built-in loose source-routing capability • Can read command line arguments from standard input • Slow-send mode, one line every N seconds • Hex dump of transmitted and received data • Optional ability to let another program service established connections • Optional telnet-options responder