Here are several different ways to test a TCP port without telnet.
BASH (man page)
$ cat < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/22
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3
^C
$ cat < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/23
Here are several different ways to test a TCP port without telnet.
$ cat < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/22
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3
^C
$ cat < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/23
Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000It turns out that some kind hearted people already set up wildcarded domains for you already. You can use any domain below and/or any subdomain of these and they will always resolve back to 127.0.0.1 (your local machine). Here's the list of ones I know about. Let me know if there are more!
localhost - It will always works. Do you know why? I hope so.[*.]fuf.me - Managed by @fidian; it will always point to localhost for IPv4 and IPv6[*.]localtest.me[*.]127-0-0-1.org.uk[*.]vcap.me[*.]yoogle.com