Package netcat: Information
Source package: netcat
Version: 4.0.20061122-alt2
Build time: Jul 9, 2008, 08:59 PM
Category: Networking/Other
Report package bugLicense: BSD
Summary: Reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP
Description:
This package contains netcat, a simple utility for reading and writing data across network connections, using the TCP or UDP protocols. netcat is intended to be a reliable back-end tool which can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. netcat is also a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create many different connections and has many built-in capabilities. There are three well-known netcat implementations, see here for details: http://pintday.org/downloads/netcat/. This package contains OpenBSD utility with improvements from Openwall project.
Maintainer: Dmitry V. Levin
Last changed
July 9, 2008 Dmitry V. Levin 4.0.20061122-alt2
Nov. 22, 2006 Ilya Evseev 4.0.20061122-alt1
- updated to 20061122 snapshot
Aug. 8, 2006 Ilya Evseev 3.9.20060725-alt1
- updated to 20060725 snapshot: + reapply patches #3, #5, #6, #7 + added patches #8 and #9 for replacing readpassphrase() and strtonum() + modify patch #1 for adding libresolv to linked libs - bugfix #9822: providing 'nc' feature