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Operating Systems BSD Ping remote sever, nc, telnet, whatever Post 302964012 by Peasant on Saturday 9th of January 2016 01:19:44 AM
Old 01-09-2016
If you are looking to see if something is listening on port 80, you were close with telnet.
Code:
telnet <ip> <port> # not <ip>/<port>

Without the port, telnet will try the default telnet port (port 23).
On most modern unix system telnet is disabled due to security reasons (plain text over network, no encryption etc.), in turn you got (which means telnet is not active on the remote server) :
Code:
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

Ping will tell you that the server is alive and responding to ICMP requests.
ICMP is also quite often blocked on firewalls, due to ICMP flooding exploits and alike.

Hope that clears things out.
Regards
Peasant.
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RXTELNET(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       RXTELNET(1)

NAME
rxtelnet -- start a telnet and forward X-connections. SYNOPSIS
rxtelnet [-l username] [-k] [-t telnet_args] [-x xterm_args] [-K kx_args] [-w term_emulator] [-b telnet_program] [-n] [-v] host [port] DESCRIPTION
The rxtelnet program starts an xterm window with a telnet to host host. From this window you will also be able to run X clients that will be able to connect securely to your X server. If port is given, that port will be used instead of the default. If setting up the X forwarding failes, rxtelnet will still telnet in to the remote host, but without X forwarding. The supported options are: -l Log in on the remote host as user username. -k Disables keep-alives. -t Send telnet_args as arguments to telnet. -x Send xterm_args as arguments to xterm. -X Send kx_args as arguments to kx. -w Use term_emulator instead of xterm. -b Use telnet_program instead of telnet. -n Do not start any terminal emulator. -v Be verbose. EXAMPLE
To login from host foo (where your display is) to host bar, you might do the following. 1. On foo: rxtelnet bar 2. You will get a new window with a telnet to bar. In this window you will be able to start X clients. SEE ALSO
kx(1), rxterm(1), telnet(1), tenletxr(1), kxd(8) KTH_KRB March 7, 2004 KTH_KRB
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