On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:35:12PM -0400, Dave Sill wrote:
>
> David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >An addendum to this message. It (finally) occurred to me to try
> >telnetting to the ports. I got:
> >
> >benfell@linux:~ > telnet 216.254.42.98:25
> >telnet: 216.254.42.98:25: Name or service not known: Success
> >216.254.42.98:25: Unknown host
> >benfell@linux:~ > telnet 216.254.42.98:110
> >telnet: 216.254.42.98:110: Name or service not known: Success
> >216.254.42.98:110: Unknown host
> >benfell@linux:~ >
>
> I think you need to separate the IP address and port with a space,
> e.g.:
>
> telnet 216.254.42.98 25
> telnet 216.254.42.98 110
>
> -Dave
>
Thanks to you, John Steniger and Johan Almqvist for pointing this out.
I trust the rest of you got a good chuckle of that particular piece of
idiocy on my part!
As for the rest of my trouble, I'm hoping it was (stand by for another
chuckle) a routing problem. [Groan. Head hits wall.] Apologies for
the bandwidth.
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