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To test the port forwarding

Is there any simple way to check whether ports are opened or not remotely?
If i do the telnet on public address with forwarded port number (in command prompt) and comes another blank screen, does that mean that port is forwarded correctly!
OR it really doesn't indicate port forwarding working correctly............is there any other simple way to check?

Thanks!

Kalti

Depends on the port mate, if it goes to a blank screen that means the port is being accepted by something there is just no ASCII data transferable, so yes, that can be a good thing if the service you are forwarding is not required to answer with an ASCII message.

SMTP For instance will answer with something like this:

"220 SMTP service ready"

However, some services will just be blank... so, to answer your question; maybe. Hehe... depends on the service.

grsteed

As Kalti says it depends on the protocol being used. Usually if the screen goes blank you're OK.

If you are testing port 80 (http) entering /get followed by Enter will usually get you some HTML.

Cheers,

Gary

Phreonx

Hello,
you can use nmap from:

http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

to check for ports open remotely and a tcpwrapper [I'm arbitrarily assuming you are using linux or unix] that listens for port scans, like portsentry, to guard against abuse.

Hope that helped ;)

ded9

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Yeah for common ports like 110, 25, 21, 23, 80 i can see the blank screen coming on. But if i can want to see special ports for example like Remote Desktop, Game server port how can i simply check.

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