check_pop

[Don Schultz]

Last I checked 110 is the well-known tcp port for POP3 traffic. 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Scibetti [mailto:russell at quadrix.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:55 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_pop
> 
> 
> I just noticed something odd about check_pop.  I know it is just a 
> sym-link to check_tcp, which is fine, except in the check_tcp 
> code, for 
> doing pop checks, it does an expect for "110", which is the FTP port 
> typically.
> 
> However, you can get a 110 back even when FTP isn't up and 
> responding. 
>  As a coworker just pointed out to me, the important thing to 
> expect is 
> a "+OK", which is the actual FTP response that shows it is working.
> 
> Is this a problem in the check_tcp code, or is there a good 
> reason for 
> the expect "110"?
> 
> Russell Scibetti
> 
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