How to build a ping server the hard way

kali null
3 min readFeb 1, 2021

I wanted to implement a simple server that would register source IPs which it was ping from and display it back to me. This way i wouldn’t have to spin up an instance each time I want to test a remote execution vulnerability on a box I’m testing.

Scenario: I’m testing a box with potential remote code execution and I want to quickly confirm it with making that box ping my server. In order to…

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kali null

security researcher and penetration tester. twitter: @kali_null