Is there a way to output a full telnet connection process to a file?

Here is what I have for other network tests in my script:

psexec \\%SERVERIP% route print >> %SERVERNAME%-routeprint.txt
psexec \\%SERVERIP% tracert foo.com >> %SERVERNAME%-Tracert.txt
psexec \\%SERVERIP% netstat -an >> %SERVERNAME%-netstat.txt
SRVINFO -NF \\%SERVERIP% |FIND /I "foo" >> %SERVERNAME%-
ServiceStatus.tx

When I add a line to telnet to a remote DNS to an specific port, the
output file is always empty, whether it connects or fails.

the best case scenario would be that I at least get a text output for
a fail. I don't care about a success, since the resulting screen
would be blank anyways.

As it is now, I have to connect to all the servers manually via RDP
and telnet then copy/paste into a text file.

It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have about 60 servers to check.

any input?

"Francis Peixoto" <pokrmessiah@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to output a full telnet connection process to a file?
>
> Here is what I have for other network tests in my script:
>
> psexec \\%SERVERIP% route print >> %SERVERNAME%-routeprint.txt
> psexec \\%SERVERIP% tracert foo.com >> %SERVERNAME%-Tracert.txt
> psexec \\%SERVERIP% netstat -an >> %SERVERNAME%-netstat.txt
> SRVINFO -NF \\%SERVERIP% |FIND /I "foo" >> %SERVERNAME%-
> ServiceStatus.tx
>
> When I add a line to telnet to a remote DNS to an specific port, the
> output file is always empty, whether it connects or fails.
>
> the best case scenario would be that I at least get a text output for
> a fail. I don't care about a success, since the resulting screen
> would be blank anyways.
>
> As it is now, I have to connect to all the servers manually via RDP
> and telnet then copy/paste into a text file.
>
> It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have about 60 servers to check.
>
> any input?

I don't think that you can do this with telnet.exe. Try nc.exe instead -
it's much more versatile: http://www.securityfocus.com/data/tools/nc11nt.zip