Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:53:18 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: "Arthur" <arthur@argay.com.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fw: Port 3201 Message-ID: <E146Zl0-0002or-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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Well, if nothing is listening on that port, then you won't get a response. There are potentially 1000's of ports, standard tcp/ip programs use so-called well known port numbers for their service (as in your example below).. but most of the ports dont have anything on them. So there is nothing that can respond to your telnet .. The port is just like a house number on a street, if nobody is at home then there is no-one to answer the door :) Cliff ..try running the application that wants to use it. > Thanks for the reply. > My ignorance is showing. On the ports that are > initialised I can run > > telnet local host and the port number, however when I check to see if 3021 > is initialised by telnet localhost 3201 the connection is refused. > > Yet when I telnet localhost 23 which I know is the port smtp uses I can > establish a connection. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net> > To: "Arthur" <arthur@argay.com.au>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Friday, 15 December 2000 12:05 AM > Subject: Re: Port 3201 > > > > > HI > > > > > > I have a DNS & Webserver running and have someone wishing to use port > > > 3201 so they can have particular users access their program through this > > > port. > > > > > > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.6 but when I check port 3201 it is not there. > > > > Errm, what do you mean, "not there", where are you looking ? > > > > > > > > Any information greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Arthur > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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