I really think that it is folly to start trying to be a forensic tool, and a pentest tool.

If the community wants to create one (and now that Helix has gone the way of nessus) that would be...

Did you try B | C? You don't say, but from what I see that's the only way it can work. Somehow you have to get stdout from B to stdin on C. (nc -l -p 12345 | nc -v ).

Sorry for my ignorance here, but did you actually have a "railsapp/config/database.yml" file, or is that something you do when creating a rails app that needs mysql?

I do have ruby apps with...

You say neither wireless or wired?

I noted Archangel asked you to run # /etc/init.d/networking start an post the output.
That should give you a clue.
I usually start it manually, with
#...

There's KB article at VMWare's self support site (won't let me post the link), but see below.

I can't explain why BT3 wouldn't have the same problem, but this is what they said in the article:
...