[nmglug] stupid question #1

[Gary Sandine]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 15:24 -0600, Andres Paglayan wrote:
> I don't have telnet server there but ssh (on port 22), and it's no going 
> thru either

So

$ telnet 1.2.3.4 22

does what?  Is the actiontec supposed to be forwarding port 22 also?

You don't need a running telnet server to telnet to port 80, like this:

$ telnet 1.2.3.4 80

The point was to see if anything is listening on port 80, like this:

$ telnet www.laclinux.com 80
Trying 66.93.248.200...
Connected to airb.losalamoscomputers.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]

telnet>

There is no telnet server running at www.laclinux.com, but there is a
Web server listening on port 80.  The telnet command above connected to
it.

Maybe you already know this stuff.... :)