Net::SMPP Connection Timed Out - perl

I am trying to achieve a bind with an SMSC but I keep getting a timeout error. The connection to the SMSC is via a VPN tunnel. I confirm I can telnet to the SMSC from command line but get a timeout error from the perl script below:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::SMPP;
use warnings;
$host = 'xx.xx.xx.xx';
$port = "2038";
$system_id = "SSEMA";
$password = "SSEMA";
my $smpp = Net::SMPP->new_transmitter($host, Port=>$port,
system_id => $system_id,
password => $password,
enquire_interval => 1500000) or die "Could not connect to $host : [$port] : $!";
if($smpp){ print "Connected ok! \n"; }
root#heisenberg:/var/www/html/glomagic# perl smpp_client.pl
Could not connect to xx.xx.xx.xx : [2038] : Connection timed out at smpp_client.pl line 14.
What could be the cause of the timeout error?

Finally resolved the issue.
Apparently Net::SMPP->new_transceiver doesn't like it when you supply arguments other than host and port.
The following worked just fine:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::SMPP;
use warnings;
$host = 'xx.xx.xx.xx';
$port = "2038";
$system_id = "SSEMA";
$password = "SSEMA";
my $smpp = Net::SMPP->new_transceiver($host, port => $port)
or die "Could not connect to $host : [$port] : $!";
if($smpp){ print "Connected ok! \n"; }

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Retry SSH to Host if Connection to the Host Fails in Perl

I have a script, which does SSH to the server and execute some command (In this script, for demonstration I am running Perl print statement with Hello message).
Here is my script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use warnings;
use Net::OpenSSH;
$Net::OpenSSH::debug = ~0;
BEGIN {
open my $out, '>', '/tmp/debug.txt' or warn $!;
$Net::OpenSSH::debug_fh = $out;
$Net::OpenSSH::debug = -1;
}
my #hosts = ("ipaddress1","ipaddress2");
my $ssh;
my $command = "perl -e 'print \"Hello..\"'";
foreach my $n (#hosts) {
#Here if connection to the host($n) fails, is it possible to retry again
$ssh = Connect($n, "user", "passwd");
$ssh->capture($command);
print "Done execution in Host: $n\n";
}
undef $ssh;
print "**End**\n";
sub Connect {
my ( $host, $user, $passwd ) = #_;
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host, user=>$user, password=>$passwd);
$ssh->error and die "Couldn't establish SSH connection: " . $ssh->error;
return $ssh;
}
Whenever I execute this script, sometimes it successfully prints below message:
Done execution in Host: ipaddress1
Done execution in Host: ipaddress2
**End**
But sometimes cannot do ssh to host (either ipaddress1 or ipaddress2) and gives following message:
Couldn't establish SSH connection: unable to establish master SSH connection: master process exited unexpectedly at script.pl ....
Its being get died in Connect subroutine (cause I couldn't trace, opened question here).
So, is there any way if I cannot connect(ssh) to the host, retry can be done after certain period of time (for n number times) instead of printing error message and make the script die?
OpenSSH provides a nice interface for errors. I'd start by looking at the examples on the cpan page. Try the following
foreach my $n (#hosts) {
#Here if connection to the host($n) fails, is it possible to retry again
$ssh = Connect($n, "user", "passwd", 3);
$ssh->capture($command);
print "Done execution in Host: $n\n";
}
undef $ssh;
print "**End**\n";
sub Connect {
my ( $host, $user, $passwd , $retry_limit ) = #_;
my $timeout = 10;
my $con;
while ( $retry_limit-- > 0 )
{
$con = Net::OpenSSH->new($host,
user=>$user,
password=>$passwd,
timeout=> $timeout,
);
last unless $con->error();
}
die "unable to connect ".$con->error() if retry_limit <0;
return $con;
}

Transfer file from Remote machine to local machine using Net::OpenSSH

I have built a script which should get a file from remote machine to local machine.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::OpenSSH;
use Data::Dumper;
my $local_dir = "/LOCAL/DIR/LOCATION/"
print "[LOCAL DIR]-> $local_dir\n";
my $remote_dir = "/REMOTE/DIR/LOCATION/";
print "[REMOTE DIR]-> $remote_dir\n";
my ($host, $user, $password) = ("remote.machine.ip.address", "userid", "password");
my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host,
user => $user,
password => $passwd,
master_opts => [-o => "StrictHostKeyChecking=no"]
);
$ssh->error and die "Couldn't establish SSH connection: ". $ssh->error;
my #file = $ssh->capture("cd $remote_dir && ls -1tr | grep Report | tail -1");
print "[FILE]:\n".Dumper(\#file);
$ssh->scp_get({glob => 1}, "$remote_dir$file[0]", $local_dir)
or die "scp failed: " . $ssh->error;
undef $ssh;
In the above code its able to print the Dumper value for #file but unable to get the file in local system.
Here is the error it throws at the end:
[FILE]:
$VAR1 = [
'Report_Managable_20200705.csv
'
];
scp: /REMOTE/DIR/LOCATION/Report_Managable_20200705.csv
protocol error: expected control record
scp failed: scp failed: child exited with code 1 at file_get_test.pl line 22.
Can anybody help me to fix this issue. TIA.
The list returned by $ssh->capture() has new lines at the end of each item. Try use chomp #file to remove the newlines.

Unable to SSH to F5 LoadBalancer through Perl

I am trying to connect to F5 load balancer through perl module Net::SSH2. I am unable to authentication error, whereas with the same credentials I am able to ssh to the device through putty. I have shared the Code and the error below for reference. Could somebody please help me with this.
use Net::SSH2;
$deviceipF5 = "x.x.x.x";
$username = "xx";
$encrPass = "xx";
my #deviceipF5List = split(',',$deviceipF5);
if(#deviceipF5List ne 0)
{
foreach my $deviceipF5(#deviceipF5List)
{
my #deviceipF5List1 = split (':', $deviceipF5);
my $ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new();
$ssh2->debug(0);
$ssh2->connect($deviceipF5List1[0]) or die $!;
$ssh2->auth(username => $username, password => $encrPass) or die "Unable to login \n".$ssh2->die_with_error;
print "Connected to '$deviceipF5List1[0]' as '$username' \n";
my $channel = $ssh2->channel() or do { print "Unable to create channnel ssh channel to Device $deviceipF5List[0]";$ssh2->disconnect(); last;};
$channel->blocking(0);
$channel->shell() ;
print "SSH Success \n";
sleep(2);
I have even tried to use auth_password instead of auth but no Luck.
Below is the error I am getting:
Bad file descriptor at line 16
I tried removing $! from line number 16 but it lead to another error:
Died at line 16

Error in perl chat server

I'm trying to create a chat server using sockets in Perl. However, when I run the Server program I get the error:
"ERROR:(9)(Bad file descriptor)(6)(+The handle is invalid) at Server.pl line 21."
and when I run the client program I get the error:
"Cannot create the socket: No connection could be made because the target machine
actively refused it."
Here is the Server program:
#!usr/bin/perl
#server.pl
use IO::Socket;
$| = 1;
print "Server Program\n";
my $lp = 12000;
my $server_socket, $new_client, $addr, $port;
$server_socket = new IO::Socket::INET (
LocalHost => '127.0.0.1',
LocalPort => $lp,
Proto => 'tcp',
Reuse => 1) or die "Cannot create the socket: $!\n";
print "Server started at port $lp \n";
while (1) {
$new_client = $server_socket->accept() or die sprintf "ERROR:(%d)(%s)(%d)(+%s)", $!,$!,$^E,$^E;
$addr = $new_client->peerhost();
$port = $new_client->peerport();
print "Connected to client at $addr at port $port ";
while(<$new_client>) {
print "Following is the text entered by client: \n";
print "$_";
}
print "Client now disconnecting..\n";
close $new_client;
}
$server_socker->close();
And here is the client:
#!usr/bin/perl
#client.pl
use IO::Socket;
$| = 1;
print "Client Program\n";
my $lp = 12000;
my $client_socket = new IO::Socket::INET (
PeerHost => '127.0.0.1',
PeerPort => $lp,
Proto => 'tcp',
Reuse => 1) or die "Cannot create the socket: $!\n";
print "Server connected at port $lp \n";
print "Enter the text to sent to the server: \n";
$user_input = <>;
chomp $user_input;
print $plient_socket;
$client_socket->send($user_input);
$client_socket->close();
I am new to this and I'm not getting where I'm going wrong. Could anybody help?
You trying to accept a connection from a socket that's not listening. Add
Listen => SOMAXCONN,
And now for off-topic comments about your code:
Always use use strict; use warnings;. It will highlight some other problems with your code.
It doesn't make any sense to relative paths on the shebang line. You're missing a /.
On the style front, it's considered bad form to declare variables ahead of where they are used. The whole point of declaring variables is to limit their scope, so declaring them at the top of the program defies the purpose.
LocalHost => '127.0.0.1' (better written as LocalHost => INADDR_LOOPBACK) makes it so you can only receive connections from 127.0.0.1. That can be useful, but I don't know if you did that intentionally. The default, INADDR_ANY, allows connections from any interface.

Remote command execution using perl client-server (socket)

My client.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket::INET;
use strict;
my $name = '172.20.10.189'; #Server IP
my $port = '7890';
my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new('PeerAddr' => $name,
'PeerPort' => $port,
'Proto' => 'tcp') or die "Can't create socket ($!)\n";
print "Client sending\n";
while (1) {
my $msg = <STDIN>;
print $socket $msg;
print scalar <$socket>;
}
close $socket
or die "Can't close socket ($!)\n";
My server.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket::INET;
use strict;
my $port = "7890";
my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new('LocalPort' => $port,
'Proto' => 'tcp',
'Listen' => SOMAXCONN)
or die "Can't create socket ($!)\n";
while (my $client = $socket->accept) {
my $name = gethostbyaddr($client->peeraddr, AF_INET);
my $port = $client->peerport;
while (<$client>) {
print "[$name $port] $_";
my #out = `$_`;
print #out;
print $client "$.: #out";
}
close $client
or die "Can't close ($!)\n";
}
die "Can't accept socket ($!)\n";
My client is sending a command (ls -lrt /) to the server and Server is supposed to run that command and send output to the client back.
Problem:-
The command is executed successfully on the server but it sends only first line to the client. If I press any key from client again the next line of output is sent to the client.
Or tell me how to send multiple line output to back to client.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Abhishek
The Server sends all lines to the client, the client however chooses to read only one line:
print scalar <$socket>;
If you remove the scalar, it should work. However, your architecture is still a security nightmare.
All servers should run in taint mode (-T switch).
Never blindly execute commands that a clients sends you. Only execute commands that pass a very strict validation test, do not run commands that just don't look malicious.
Perhaps you are trying to duplicate SSH, you might want to look at that program instead.
Your server doesn't do any kind of authentication. At least it logs all inputs.
It was a silly mistake... and I have fixed the first issue as follows and got multi-line output on the client side...
Client.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket::INET;
use strict;
my $name = '172.20.10.189'; #Server IP
my $port = '7890';
my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new('PeerAddr' => $name,
'PeerPort' => $port,
'Proto' => 'tcp')
or die "Can't create socket ($!)\n";
print "Client sending\n";
while (1) {
my $msg = <STDIN>;
print $socket $msg;
while (<$socket>)
{
print "\n$_";
}
}
close $socket
or die "Can't close socket ($!)\n";
BUT there is one more issue -
I want my client to keep sending few other commands one after another until I close the client manually and receive output.
The problem is - It receives output of the first command only..
Can anyone now help me on this?