RE: [cobalt-users] (no subject)

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>You can 'cut out the middleman' (browser) by telnetting to port 80 of
>your qube2 and seeing if the web server is up.  There's no prompt, so
>type "GET /" and 2 returns.  If you get a response, you're in the clear.
>If not, time to get on-site.

I am not real familiar with telnet so I want to be SURE I am doing this
correctly. I just append :80 to the end of the IP address of this unit,
correct ? Actually hope that is incorrect since I cannot get it to work :-)

And I am onsite. It is across the hall from my office. The buttons on the
back of the unit will to NOTHING...

>I'm guessing this to mean that there is network connectivity to your box,
>but the daemons (inetd) may be boggled.

Yep, seems to be network connectivity since I can ping it and it returns
info. How can it do that if it is "dead" ?

Thanks Tim !

Chuck