I'm connecting to a server I have on my laptop, both are on the same vmnet and both systems are Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
In order to connect I use reverse shell from the web sever.
First I start listening on my host by typing sudo nc -l -k -v 10101 and then I start the
listen by going to my webserver and typing /bin/nc 172.16.55.1 10101 /bin/bash
On the host end I get a notification saying connection from 172.16.55.128 port 10101 [tcp/*] accepted
After this, instead of having a working connection (i.e write ls in host and getting my web-server's output) I get nothing in my host, and in my web server I can see the same input I wrote from the host (i.e all I see appear is ls)
From past experience when I used remote shell my host changed from me@host:~$ to something else indicating I'm now in a remote system for example me@remotewebserver:~$ here this is not the case, I have nothing before the part where I type, not even the me@host that was there.
