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[Ajai Khattri]

Joseph Crawford wrote:

>doesnt work, here is the output from Microsoft Telnet
>
>Microsoft Telnet> open
>( to ) news.php.net
>Connecting To news.php.net...Could not open a connection to host: Connect failed
>
>Microsoft Telnet>
>

Without specifying a port number, telnet will use port 23 - Im assuming 
this is not what you want to do.
NNTP runs on port 119 so you need to tell telnet to use that port.

In Linux you would do something like: "telnet news.php.net 119"

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Aj.
Systems Administrator / Developer