Can telnet port 80 but cannot ping!

[drew at drewtaylor.com (Drew Taylor)]

When you're telnetting to port 80, you're simulating a web browser. Apache 
is running so you get a response.

When you telnet to the default port, you're trying to login to the machine. 
It sounds like you don't have the telnet daemon installed on your box. If 
you're looking fo remote access, please look into SSH. It's easy to setup, 
and infinitely more secure than telnet.

As for the ping, perhaps you're behind some sort of firewall?

HTH.
Drew

At 10:02 AM 12/6/2001 -0500, Ali Taalebi wrote:



>I am running RedHat Linux 7.2 on a Compaq DeskPro.
>I can successfully:
>         telnet <My-Host> 80
>
>However, if I try:
>         telnet <My-Host>
>it responds:
>         "telnet: Unable to connect to ...."
>
>I have also tried:
>         ping <My-Host>
>but it says:
>         "no answer from h00045adc236a.ne.mediaone.net"
>
>Any idea what steps I should take to make these services available
>on my server? I should mention that I chose the telnet and other
>modules during my installation of of my Linux.
>
>Many thanks in advance.
> >>Ali
>
>
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