how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports
michael Alexander
linux at milwaukeevalve.com
Wed Jan 21 14:09:29 PST 2004
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:39 PM
> To: Dinesh Nair
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> Subject: RE: how to tell if my ISP is blocking email & web ports
>
>
> 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.
I believe Just add the port number at the end...
Telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 25
For testing a mail server connection for example. I don't have anything
that old to test it on though. Works in XP for sure, I use it frequently.
-Mike
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