Richard Forth

Hi Sumit, This has been in my radar for several years but so far all the Jenkins Tests are passing so I'm loathe to change things at the moment as...

If you can remember what OS it was on I'll run some tests. I know netstat has been a hard dependency for some time and I think the docker images...

```bash # yum whatprovides ss Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager ... iproute-4.11.0-30.el7.x86_64 : Advanced IP routing and network device configuration tools Repo : base Matched from: Filename : /usr/sbin/ss...

I'm also in the process of adding an Ubuntu 22.04 Docker file and Jenkins stage in the pipeline

```perl 1671 # Check 2.1 1672 # this script uses netstat to determine the port that apache is listening on 1673 # process. make sure that netstat is available. 1674...

Thinking of setting some flags, and checking for netstat, and falling back to ss, then later in the script calling netstat or ss depending on what flag is set

for ss ```perl show_info_box(); print "${YELLOW}To fix this make sure the iproute package is installed.${ENDC}\n"; ```

or im also thinking of looking for ss first, and falling back to netstat, as this will likely future proof the logic for a few years, since ss is the...

Working on this issue today. but thinking, should we default to a secure position as in redact hostnames and IP addresses by default and then have the user optionally reveal,...

So the choices are: 1. Automatically redact as a safe default - have the user manually reveal (this seems like a logical security stance to take) 2. Stay as we...