Up until late last night, I hadn’t used the iPhone terminal application – Term-vt100 – in quite a while. Reason for my lack of usage being laziness – as it had major password issues (which made it unusable until you found the right fix to apply manually) under the 1.1.4 firmware, and I just couldn’t be bothered with searching for and applying those fixes. I think it may have been the same under the 1.1.3 firmware, but can’t recall for sure.
Last night a new version of it popped up in Installer, and the good news is this version has fixed the password issues – so you can happily use the terminal app again without any need to look around for and mess around with manual fixes. I believe the fix is part of the Term-vt100 package’s move (along with many others) from the Conceited Software source to BigBoss’ source – see HERE for details on this changeover.
I was so glad to see the terminal app again, that I even installed the DNS Tools app as well, and have been happily playing around with lots of its command-line tools for quite a while late last night and this morning. I’ve been using nslookup (for internet name / address resolution), telnet (for connecting to remote systems via the command line), and netstat (for viewing details on all active internet connections) so far.
It’s been good fun playing around with some command-line tools again – and brushing up on the syntax needed for the UNIX versions of these. I also want to give the whois, dig and wget tools a go later on – need to look at proper usage and syntax for those. This is yet another reason that it is so cool to have OSX running on the iPhone – the ability to run powerful command-line network tools on it.
Since I went off on my little network tools kick this morning, I’ve even been looking around for info on whether or how you can run nmap (powerful port mapping tool) on the iPhone. So far I’ve found a few promising looking posts and forum threads, but not an actual app. There are versions of nmap for OSX and various BSD flavors of course, but I didn’t find a good reference for running it on the iPhone as yet. If anyone knows of a good nmap port, I’d love to hear about it. I’d just love to see how well, or badly, it runs on the iPhone.
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