Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:14:13 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: Andre Cameron <camcom@optonline.net> Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ping Question Message-ID: <15330.43573.984625.726261@apu.five.sight> In-Reply-To: <007e01c163a7$6ac1ab50$0200a8c0@supportjlgjov8> References: <007e01c163a7$6ac1ab50$0200a8c0@supportjlgjov8>
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> Can I ping a specific port? if so how? Ping uses a separate protocol (ICMP). It's just to tell if a host is alive (and how far away it is networkologically). It doesn't make sense to direct it to a given port. > It seams that port 80 is not excepting requests from outside my > netwrok and I'm not sure if the port is open or now, if not does > anyone have any ideas how to open it? Ah. That we can do: $ telnet myhost.foo.bar 80 If you get a connection, then type (for example) GET / HTTP/1.0 and bonk on the enter key twice. > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > [ ... ] Please don't do that. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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