Comments on: Network utilities (e.g. ping, ftp, telnet, …) in MobileTerminal on iPhone

By: billydaz

billydaz — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:30:37 +0000

or you can type in MT as root “apt-get install com.sull.ping”

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:38:47 +0000

you can get nslookup from BIND DNS Server in cydia. To work it needs to know a dns server, so just copy /etc/resolv.conf from your mac, and replace the first ip next to “nameserver” with your carriers dns server (or the networks…), and put that file in the same place on your phone using ssh

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:25:39 +0000

I tried to find inetutils on cydia and cant find it.. is it gone?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:12:42 +0000

Anyone know if i can get the “nslookup” command installed on MT?

By: Rez

Rez — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:23:27 +0000

I’m having the exact same problem as TechBart on my iPhone 4 with iOS 4.1.

Anyone got any ideas?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:15:17 +0000

thnx

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 05:37:03 +0000

Thanks! nice info.

By: X

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:10:30 +0000

Worked with mobileterminal 4.26 and ios 4.0.1 I did the apt-get command so it worked right away.

By: Techbart

Techbart — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:44:41 +0000

I too am having issues using traceroute. I have installed inetutils and network-cmds from Cydia. However, any attempt to run a traceroute from Mobile Terminal results in several fails depending on user. For standard mobile user both with and without su, I see:

“traceroute: icmp socket: Operation not premitted”

If I try traceroute with root account, I see the following message:

“traceroute: ifaddrlist: SIOCGIFADDR: pdp_ip0: Can’t assign requested address”

My guess is that mobile terminal is defaulting to using the iPhone’s cell comms interface and ignoring wireless connectivity. Not a problem for most people I know, but as I don’t have network coverage (bills got on top of me), without an unlock I’m stuck behind wifi. Even so, it would be nice to have traceroute either automatically pick up an active connection, or allow the user to switch between interfaces. Er, just a guess here though:p

By: art

art — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:48:37 +0000

Thank u very much for the info.