I asked: > I want to do a quick sanity check. An application needs to verify that > the ftp process is responding on a particular server. Since ftp is a > transient process, I am assuming that what the application really wants > to do is verify that inetd is responding. So it should verify that port > 111, tcp and udp, is ready. Am I correct, or am I missing something? The answer: It cannot be done. Unlike a webserver, where if port 80 is open then the web application should be ok, the only way to determine if an ftp server is responding is to actually ftp to it. And thank you to the hoards of folks who pointed out to me that port 111 is rpcbind, not inetd. Thanks to too many people to list. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Christopher L. Barnard O When I was a boy I was told that | | cbarnard@tsg.cbot.com / \ anybody could become president. | | (312) 347-4901 O---O Now I'm beginning to believe it. | | http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~cbarnard --Clarence Darrow | +----------PGP public key available via finger or PGP keyserver---------+ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Dec 17 13:36:32 2002
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