putty question

[Ned]

How do you "ping" a box? What does it mean?

Thanks in advance!
Ned
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
To: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org>; "Speakup is a screen review 
system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: putty question


> Good idea,
> I tried pinging the box, and I got the same thing:
> timed out
> I ran ifconfig on the Linux box and all seems okay, and ifconfig also
> confirmed my IP address.
> Why would it time out?
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org>
> To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review
> system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 1:44 PM
> Subject: RE: putty question
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Can you ping the box?  What does netstat -an give on the box - for
> example, I have the following:
>
> Active Internet connections (servers and established)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address
> State
> [...]
>
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:110             0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN
>
> This is POP daemon listening on all interfaces
>
> [...]
>
> tcp        0      0 192.168.1.3:22          0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN
>
> This is because I have set SSHD to listen on the _lan_ interface only,
> as I don't trust myself with making it available on the DMZ side for
> internet use.
>
> Do you see an entry in the table on your system refering to port 22?
>
> Thanks.
> Andrew.
>
>
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