lightbulb? prob'ly not, but....

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:22:51PM +0100, Terrence Koeman wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Kline
> > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 22:33
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> > Subject: lightbulb? prob'ly not, but....
> > 
> [snip]
> 
> > 
> > # telnet 10.47.0.230
> > Trying ...
> > telnet: connect to addr n.n.n.n: Connection refused
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remotr host
> > 
> > Does the "Connection refused" signify anything in the bind/dns world.
> > ?
> > 
> > BEfore i portupgraded to bind97 from bind9, this kind of stuff worked.
> > 
> 
> Seeing as you're not resolving any hostname it's not DNS.
> 
> You also have not specified a port for telnet to connect to so it'll default to 23, which you probably don't want. Try 'telnet 10.47.0.230 80' (80 is the standard port for http).


	YES.  I get into ethic as with a normal telnet; when i hit return, I
	see index.php; the source, not the web file that lynx of firefox 
	shows.  I'll KVM over to my desktop and cut/paste from there.
> 
> BTW, the 'Connection Refused' message means that the port is closed and sending a RST, which means that either nothing is listening on the port or that the system is sending RST's because of a firewall rule. If you haven't setup such rules you can assume the first to be the case. 
> 

	wHat _should_ be listening on port 80 that isn't?


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