How to test for open port without telnet

The telnet client is no longer being installed by default on secure systems. So, how do you check that you can get to a remote port, like a mail relay? There’s been a trick in bash for a while, that I didn’t know about. Here’s how to get an idea: 2014-04-05 07:35:56 ec2-user@ip-172-31-9-61:~ 0$ cat […]

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