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.