Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 10:26:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: vivek chawla cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: telnet not working In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 1 May 2003, vivek chawla wrote: > When i type telnet www.asdf.com 80 > it says asdf.com : unknown host > > Also when i type status it says > not connected > On all other computers these commands work well > > please help. Doesn't look like a Cygwin problem... Try "ping www.asdf.com". Try accessing www.asdf.com using the Windows version of telnet. If you get the same response, you'll need to fix your network connection settings in Windows. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/