On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 09:23, zillah wrote:
> > The telnet command does not accept arithmetic expressions for the port number
>
> Yes you are right.
>
>
> > Shouldn't that be telnet 198.222.168.189:5902
>
> I tried this, without any success.
Telnet wants a space between the address and port number.
I thought you could do the math and come up with
telnet 198.222.168.189 5902
If you connect to something it means the server side is
OK. If not, the server isn't running as you expected or
you have a firewall or network problem.
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Les Mikesell
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