Linux Forums unreachable.

[Ray Parrish]

Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> On Mon, February 22, 2010 13:59, Ray Parrish wrote:
>
>   
>> I tried that, and telnet never connects. Also, I tried to telnet to the
>> web server one of my web sites is hosted on, and it could not connect
>> there either, and I can load web pages from there no problem, so that
>> didn't prove much to me.
>>     
>
> Are you sure that you didn't forget the port number 80?
> Because for the web server, there is no difference at all between a
> connection from a browser and a telnet connection on port 80. A Wireshark
> logging of that network traffic would be almost identical, the only
> difference would be the speed because with telnet you type the commands
> manually.
>
> If you can't connect directly to port 80, do you have some kind of
> firewall or proxy that does "funky" stuff?
>   
I must have, because I tried it again, and here is what I got -
ray at RaysComputer:~$ telnet www.linuxforums.org 80
Trying 174.132.123.98...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

ray at RaysComputer:~$ telnet www.rayslinks.com 80
Trying 74.208.21.208...
Connected to www.rayslinks.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:01:53 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 39

<h1>Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)</h1>Connection closed by foreign host.
ray at RaysComputer:~$

So, evidently somehow my machine is being blocked from linuxforums.org 
specifically for some reason, and I do not know how it is being done.

Please see my question about routing tables in the other reply to 
another person on this thread.

Thanks, Ray Parrish

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