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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


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