On 17 June 2016 at 09:19, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 16 June 2016 at 14:23, Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Christopher wrote: >>> >>>> So, I'm trying to understand what's going on with netcat. If anybody can >>>> enlighten me, I'd appreciate it. Here's what I've found so far: >>> >>> Original netcat is obsolete, try socat or nmap-ncat. >> >> I don't think this was the original netcat but had been replaced by >> the openbsd version a long time ago. > > Want me to ask the netcat author? i'll probably see him on Saturday. > > I admit that I find the simplicity of netcat's user interface to be > much more graceful than socat's feature filled but excess complexity. I am less impressed by the socat security problem from earlier this year that was there for a while. In any case it would be good to find out what the current state is and what package is preferred by the author these days. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
