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Santa's Gift-Tracking Service Port Mystery

Difficulty:

Objective

Task description

Chat with Yuri near the apartment building about Santa's mysterious gift tracker and unravel the holiday mystery.

Yuri

Hi! I'm Yori.

I was Ed's lost intern back in 2015, but I was found!

Think you can check out this terminal for me? I need to use cURL to access the gift tracker system, but it has me stumped.

Please see what you can do!

Hints

Web Requests without a Browser??

Since we don't have a web browser to connect to this HTTP service...There is another common tool that you can use from the cli.

Who is Netstat?

Back in my day...we just used Netstat. I hear ss is the new kid on the block. A lot of the parameters are the same too...such as listing only the ports that are currenting LISTENING on the system.

Solution

Solution

We need to execute the following commands:

ss -tlnp
curl 0.0.0.0:12321

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answer

Challenge terminal.

Response

Yuri

Great work - thank you!

Geez, maybe you can be my intern now!