Re: [PEN-TEST] hotline server ?

[Brian Russo <brusso () PHYS HAWAII EDU>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:29:17AM -0500, cdowns wrote:
> Brian Russo wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:34:53PM -0500, cdowns wrote:
> > > does anyone know the exact protocol that hotline server uses ? tcp
> > > connections just dumps you as illegal protocol. im trying to get it to
> > > spit some info so i can start playing around with it.
>
> infact yes i did and compiled the gtkhx software and then tried the server
> version. i was asking a simple question and that was all, maybe someone had seen
> or knows something i do not and now that were on this subject of posting simple
> things, isnt this list supposed to be here for educational purposes ? so like

i'm not trying to discourage people from asking questions, only simple ones,
how much mail would there be on this list if people were always asking things
like 'how do i block port foo outgoing on xl0 with ipf' when there is
perfectly good/available documentation.
i apologize if this intent was unclear.

if you were already aware of some of the available open source software for
hotline, why not mention this? that way you'll save yours and others time, all
you need is a little blurb 'oh i've already checked out gtkhx, what i really
want is more details, has anyone done a thorough reverse engineer of this
protocol?' or something like that.

> asking questions is a good thing ? so you dont have more useless seat dwellers at
> the keyboard ? just curious to that one too.
>
> i wonder if medical lists react the same way as people on this list do ? shinder
> information that should be shared to educate other medical pratitioners so the
> physical care of an individual might not be advanced and is discouraged to the
> point of bad and or neglected healthcare ? hmmmmmm just like security kinda eh ?

again, i'm not trying to summarily discourage people from asking questions,
only simple, terse ones.
i don't see how this is a very useful comparison anyway.

anyway, try
http://www.vivahx.com/guides/hotline_server_protocol.txt
http://www.vivahx.com/guides/hotline_tracker_protocol.txt
there's others relating to hotline there..
http://www.vivahx.com/guides/

If you didn't like hx, you can still try the java impl. and the perl module.
I don't know how well documented they are, the java one looks like it is.

http://awacs.dhs.org/software/wasbeer/doc/LATEST/overview-summary.html


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