Re: Verify network connection from i

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you're un-pinged and un-tracerouted, it's tough, but techniques like the
one you use are good.

Another trick is telnet foo.com 80 (the http port) if it has a web server.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:00 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Folks:
>
> This may sound like a dumb question, but what tool or technique do you use
> to verify a network connection to another system (internal or external)?
>
> Yes, PING & TRACEROUTE are the obvious answers ... but, in my case, ping &
> traceroute are (for whatever reason) blocked (both from the i and my
> workstation).
>
> I've tried using wget in qshell (and qp2term), but I get a connection
> refused error.
>
> Using wget I am able to retrieve the default index page from an IIS
> instance I'm running on my workstation (which is in the same physical
> network as the i).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> david
>
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