[CentOS] Strange connectivity problem from linux.

Thu Aug 27 18:53:14 UTC 2009
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Tharun Kumar Allu<tharun.allu at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> When I telnet to
>> $ telnet adp.eease.com 443
>>
>> it works fine some times and every 5-10 tries or so it says connection
>> refused. And this does not happen from my windows box.
>>
>> Can anyone from this list try this on their linux installation and see
>> if they get the same behaviour?
> 
> [lanny at dell2400 ~]$ telnet adp.eease.com 443
> Trying 209.168.243.5...
> telnet: connect to address 209.168.243.5: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> [lanny at dell2400 ~]$
> 
> BTW:  I have telnet and anonymous FTP disabled on my web sites.
> Suggest the person in charge of that box switch to SSH.

I'd assume that 'telnet hostname 443' is intended to be a test for an 
https web service - which should in fact not permit a connection without 
ssl encryption.   The linux version of telnet probably tries to do some 
options negotiations before it says it is connected and perhaps the 
windows version doesn't.   A better test would be
wget https://adp.eease.com

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   Les Mikesell
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