From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 2 6:13:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sdsl-216-36-101-146.dsl.chi.megapath.net (sdsl-216-36-101-146.dsl.chi.megapath.net [216.36.101.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E33E37B401 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 06:13:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 62953 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2001 14:14:14 -0000 Received: from apu.five.sight (HELO apu.five.sight.fivesight.com) (lucas@192.168.0.102) by wiggum.five.sight with SMTP; 2 Nov 2001 14:14:14 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15330.43573.984625.726261@apu.five.sight> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:14:13 -0600 To: Andre Cameron Cc: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Lucas Bergman Subject: Re: Ping Question In-Reply-To: <007e01c163a7$6ac1ab50$0200a8c0@supportjlgjov8> References: <007e01c163a7$6ac1ab50$0200a8c0@supportjlgjov8> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.4 (patch 5) "Civil Service" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: lucas@slb.to Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. > > [ ... ] Please don't do that. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message