How to set timeout for dev/tcp while checking hostname and port?


 
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Old 09-26-2015
How to set timeout for dev/tcp while checking hostname and port?

I have a command to check the status of hostname and port number,
Code:
echo > /dev/tcp/hostname/80
echo $?
0

success case


Code:
echo > /dev/tcp/hostname/809999

I got the output
-------------------
connection timed out

It took almost 4 minutes to time out,,, how can I set it to 10 seconds?

my OS details are
bash-3.00$ uname
SunOS 5.10 Generic_125101-10

Last edited by sam@sam; 09-26-2015 at 04:14 AM..
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Old 09-26-2015
Did you consider the nc (netcat) utility?
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Old 09-26-2015
netcat are NOT supported on my OS.
bash-3.00$ nc host 80
bash: nc: command not found

Last edited by sam@sam; 09-29-2015 at 07:43 AM..
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