On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:20 AM 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 Original netcat is obsolete, try socat or nmap-ncat.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 I don't think this was the original netcat but had been replaced by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.
Yes. I believe you are right. It looks like nc was the openbsd version, and nc6 was a fork of that? In either case, it seems they aren't needed, due to nmap-ncat.
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 agree, but it looks like both nc and nc6 are more directly replaced by nmap-ncat. Presumably it adopts at least some of the simplicity of the prior incarnations of netcat.
My conclusion: nc and nc6 should be retired. One thing I noticed was that nc and nc6 are listed in comps (security-lab group), but I'm not sure the packages even exist in f24. I guess that'll have to be fixed for a proper retirement (instead of the orphan->6weeks->retire path they went through).
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