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Re: Check FTP server status

You could simply connect a socket to the port in question, and if it
connects and receives a 220 message, assume that the server is up.
It's very similar to the "log in" method, but you stop before you actually
log in :)


On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Loyd Goodbar wrote:
>
> I wish there were a standard way (other than port scanning) to determine if a
> service is listening on a particular port - ping a port. Hopefully there is
> and I just don't know about it.
>

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