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lazydomino

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Registered: 2018-05-03

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netcat of archlinux

Hi,

I found that the official netcat(the `nc` command provider) of archlinux is gnu-netcat-0.7.1 which is pretty old (released in 2004).

However, CentOS and other distros use the nmap-ncat implementation.

How can I install the nmap version netcat? Can we consider to replace the old gnu-netcat with the nmap one?

Last edited by lazydomino (2018-05-03 04:18:06)

jasonwryan

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Re: netcat of archlinux

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … sd-netcat/

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liara

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Re: netcat of archlinux

It's included in nmap, i believe.  When installing nmap, you install ncat too. 
Edit: My mistake. Didn't read well, the bsd one.

Last edited by liara (2018-05-03 05:22:42)

lazydomino

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Registered: 2018-05-03

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Re: netcat of archlinux

You are correct. Thank you.

The ncat is contained in the nmap package.