Re: Netcat Problems

From: Bodo Eggert (7eggert_at_fsmtpd.7eggert.dyndns.org)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:14:42 +0200

Devon Reed <devon@jiffysquid.com> wrote:

> nc -v XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX 80

> nc: forward host lookup failed: h_errno 11001: HOST_NOT_FOUND

Use telnet (without -v) for testing, since netcat has bad error reporting. 

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