On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:24:05PM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:

 > I soon learned is that the original nc is unmaintainable and very
 > crufty.  So i started from scratch.  This new implementation is
 > small and clean, and supports IPv6.  I didn't implement the
 > original nc's stranger features such as port randomization, and i
 > also left out UDP.  AFAIK no one actually uses these, though it
 > shouldn't be hard to add them if there demand were there.

Actually, I know people who use netcat's UDP functionality to do
evil tunneling things in places where it is necessary.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>