Comment 3 for bug 517478

You can fix it temporarily by installing a version of nc which recognizes the -q option on the remote server. You can try my workaround.

On ubuntu system:
# apt-get install build-essential quilt

$ cd /usr/src
$ apt-get source netcat-openbsd
$ cd ./netcat-openbsd-1.89
$ ./debian/rules

Now you have in current directory patched version which you download on the remote server and there compile it.