Linux Forums unreachable.

[Markus Schönhaber]

25.02.2010 18:34, Tom H:

>>>> While not exactly helping to find the culprit, it might nevertheless be
>>>> interesting to see if the problem is specific to port 80. I. e. if you
>>>> telnet to a different port (21, 53, 443, 8443 for example seem to be
>>>> open on linuxforums.org) will a connection be established?
> 
>>> Great summary and suggestions - although I doubt that it has other
>>> ports open.
> 
>> It has - I checked before posting that the above mentioned TCP ports are
>> indeed accepting connections on the server. And you confirm this for 443:
> 
>>> It is not configured for https for example (it just has a
>>> RHEL default apache page at that port).
>>
>> ...which means that the site *is* configured for HTTPS.
> 
> What I meant to say was that 443 what not particularly useful because
> there is nothing being served there. So it is a request for extra work
> from Ray (like my wget request) without a real move to a resolution.

Please, look again at what I wrote above. I simply wanted to know if Ray
can establish a TCP connection to a port other than 80 on
www.linuxforums.org, i. e. whether or not Ray's problem is specific to
port 80. I never said that such a connection, if it could be
established, would be "useful" for anything.

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Regards
  mks