Re: [cobalt-users] (no subject)

[Tim Dunn <tdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >You can 'cut out the middleman' (browser) by telnetting to port 80 of
> >your qube2 and seeing if the web server is up.  

> 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 :-)

Depends on the telnet client.  On unix boxes, "/usr/bin/telnet qube2 80"
will do what you want.  On windows client, you'll need to find some dialog
that says "port number" and change it from 23 to 80

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

Not a good sign.  I'm all for rebooting it and seeing what happens.

> >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" ?

I'll have to be honest here and claim ignorance.  I believe 'ping' handling
is a function of network stack, so if you can ping a machine (get a response),
then the hardware is okay enough for it to power on, boot up and load the
network stack.  Also, that tells you there is a known route to the remote
machine (from the computer doing the pinging) and a known route (not always
the same way back!) from the remote computer back to yours.

The daemons (ftp, httpd, telnetd / sshd, etc.) are another matter - they're
more than just receiving and kicking off ICMP packets - there's protocols
to negotiate, handshakes to establish, etc.  

Mind you, this is all from some classes I took (and slept through) over a
decade ago, so I maybe completely out to lunch.  If so, perhaps someone
will correct me.

Who am I kidding?  Given the pedantic nature of some of the list participants,
I'm *sure* someone will correct me. =)

tim

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