use um bom telnet antigo:
[user@lappie ~]$ telnet host 22
Trying ip.adr.tld ...
Connected to host (ip.addr.tld).
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5
esta é uma tentativa bem sucedida. Um sem sucesso deve ser assim:
[user@lappie ~]$ telnet host 23
Trying ip.adr.tld ...
telnet: connect to address ip.adr.tld: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
ou com o nmap
[user@lappie ~]$ nmap host
Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-10-07 11:25 CEST
Nmap scan report for host (ip.adr.tld)
Host is up (0.0052s latency).
rDNS record for ip.adr.tld : host.domain.tld
Not shown: 995 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
111/tcp open rpcbind
3000/tcp open ppp
5666/tcp open nrpe
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.18 seconds