Lanny: > Ross: I have an old (2003) book about Network Troubleshooting. It > shows an example of using Telnet to Port 80, to see what's happening. > I just tried that, and assuming the CentOS server in Layered Tech is > configured the same way, which is a huge assumption, it is not > responding with HTML. However, I also tried that, to one of my web > sites, on a shared server in CT, (I had them disable Telnet and > Anonymous FTP) and it does not respond with HTML there either. My > browser can load my web site without any problem. Probably this is > *NOT* a valid way to test this! Here's what I got, in my 3 attempts: > insufficent info on your GET, and you can't use any backspaces, you pretty much have to paste a perfect command... $ telnet www.centos.org www Trying 72.232.194.162... Connected to www.centos.org (72.232.194.162). Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.centos.org HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:08:16 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9 Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=d329988a9d984ee4bbe2e1e2f12d2aa0; path=/ Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: private, no-cache Pragma: no-cache Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Connection closed by foreign host. note i had to send THREE lines... I used the HEAD command rather than GET so I don't have to stare at a bunch of html. HEAD / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.centos.org (and a blank line to terminate the request)