telnet

24 Sep 2006 4:11 AM

Allen

I am trying to use the telnet command line utility to test connectivity to a
mail server. When I attempt to connect using, "telnet x.x.x.x 25" I
immediatly get an message saying, "could not open connection to the host, on
port 25:Connect Failed"

It seems that its not evening attempting to connect because the error
appears immediatley. I know the mail server is operational (I've tried
several) and I know they will accept connections from any system. they are
internal web servers so there is not network firewall or filtering going.
The same command from a non XP machine works fine. The Windows firewall is
not running.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

24 Sep 2006 1:37 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

In news:9C51D98E-08E8-4CEF-9053-FD581B38CB5F@microsoft.com,

Allen <Al***@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:

> I am trying to use the telnet command line utility to test
> connectivity to a mail server. When I attempt to connect using,
> "telnet x.x.x.x 25" I immediatly get an message saying, "could not
> open connection to the host, on port 25:Connect Failed"
>
> It seems that its not evening attempting to connect because the error
> appears immediatley. I know the mail server is operational (I've
> tried several) and I know they will accept connections from any
> system. they are internal web servers so there is not network
> firewall or filtering going. The same command from a non XP machine
> works fine. The Windows firewall is not running.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Since the Windows firewall doesn't block outbound traffic anyway, it
wouldn't be the issue. Do you have another firewall app on your computer? A
lot of 'security suites' and antivirus apps have them.