Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 14, 2005 09:51 PM
Thanks for a great article, I think that it was very good.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
netcat can be really useful if you want to transfer a file between two hosts but dont want to download, install and configure an FTP server which might take long time if all you want todo is to quickly transfer a little file.
But I think that maybe its not a good to run it on a server for backup scripts since it can overwrite that file and other people can connect to the netcat too and write their data or fill up the diskspace unless that port is filtered to a specific IP addr. For backup scripts and production-use a FTP server (preferably over SSL) would be a better and more reliable solution.
Netcat is cool, and the -c option is very cool too but maybe people should take care when use it.
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Great article!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 14, 2005 09:51 PMnetcat can be really useful if you want to transfer a file between two hosts but dont want to download, install and configure an FTP server which might take long time if all you want todo is to quickly transfer a little file.
But I think that maybe its not a good to run it on a server for backup scripts since it can overwrite that file and other people can connect to the netcat too and write their data or fill up the diskspace unless that port is filtered to a specific IP addr.
For backup scripts and production-use a FTP server (preferably over SSL) would be a better and more reliable solution.
Netcat is cool, and the -c option is very cool too but maybe people should take care when use it.
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