how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports

[fbsd_user]

My friends PC is an MS/Windows 98 box.
I know all windows system have telnet in command.com.
Which is reachable from start/run and opens an native dos window.

Would anybody know the syntax of the native dos telnet command
 to include the port number to use?

telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx would get me to the telnet port
at that IP address.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dinesh Nair
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 3:15 PM
To: fbsd_user
Cc: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD. ORG
Subject: Re: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports


On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote:
> So I need a way to test if the ports are blocked or not using an
> friends PC and my current  IP address.
>
> What do you recommend?

why not just enable sendmail, apache and pop3 on your home box and
telnet
to ports 25, 80 and 110 respectively from your friend's pc to see if
it
works ?

Regards,                           /\_/\   "All dogs go to heaven."
dinesh at alphaque.com                (0 0)    http://www.alphaque.com/
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