On Mon, 23 May 2011 10:17:36 -0700
Nemo Inis <nemoi...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, this is normal behaviour for netcat-openbsd. The man page is quite 
> specific that -l
> and -p cannot be used together:
> 
> "     -l      Used to specify that nc should listen for an incoming 
> connection rather than initi‐
>              ate a connection to a remote host.  It is an error to use this 
> option in conjunction
>              with the -p, -s, or -z options. "

This will cause a portability issue because 'nc.traditional -l 8888' does
not binds to port 8888. So I think that this should be included in
readme file in Debian package because netcat-openbsd provides 'netcat'
package as well as netcat-traditional.

-- 
Alexander Galanin



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