Allright, so I'm a n00b and I'm probably going to get flamed for this.
The problem I'm facing is with Telnet. I can't connect to ANYTHING. I have cable modem, win 98 (yes I know I should get linux, but i'm just doing this for fun and I am an amatruer), and a solid pc. Telnet just crashes when I try to connect to anything at all. I've tried opening it on its own a through dos, but this is making no difference.
Can anyone here help me out with this or tell me where I can find a good, up-to-date Telnet manual.
Thanks.

Crashes? You mean it shuts itself down when connecting?

No, it just freezes, its just a white, empty window. I go press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and it says its not responding....so I end it. What to do? <

Telnet for Win9x has the tendency to do this when you try and connect to ports on a system that are not open, or not accepting your connection attempt...

Go download TeraTermPro (its free), it is a far more versatile terminal emulation program and its solid.

See this thread if you are having problems: http://www.totse.com/bbs/Forum12/HTML/001298.html

edit: stupid smileys messing things up unintentionally

[This message has been edited by cense (edited 10-29-2002).]

thanksm i'll try it out.

find methodus toolz 2.0 it's got a connecter like telnet, cept it's not telnet. It's called a "raw connector"

Its could be possible that your isp restricts connection attempts from its clients to ports that arn't necessary in normal internet use. This would be my theory although i have no hard evidence of it taking place but i had three friends all on "freeserve anytime", i was on "bt somethingorothercrapblahblah service", i could connect to a certain port on a certain system yet none of my friends could on there isp- maybe its due to speed of connection but i'm not too sure.

Chunkmiester
Mods- any input?

A sure way of telling if a port is open is a port scan.

Chunky: yes, an ISPs/Organizations firewall can definately block traffic going to the outside world. This could be the case however I did get the impression that Nohman had reason to believe that the port was infact open, and I assumed this would be due to a port scan attempt or something, maybe I assumed too much.

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/me thinks he's a mod now

NMAP is the greatest tool for this kind of thing
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

I don't know how to portscan. I suck.
I'm going to download the suggested programs, but I don't think I'll get anything out of it unless someone explains me how to use them.
However, I would help if someone told me my ISP blocks outgoing signals.
I use road runner.
Thanks for the help.

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Originally posted by Nohman:
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However, I would help if someone told me my ISP blocks outgoing signals.
I use road runner.
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Best way to find out is to call up and ask 'em...

from the link cense posted
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Try this:
telnet drill.hackerslab.org
login level0
password guest
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i run telnet, it asks for login i type hit enter up come 'pass:' but it freezes and i cant type the password, any ideas wtf is up anyone else get it?

How does it freeze? those server can be *really* slow in response. Also, when you are typing your password, you wont see little "*"'s show up, nothing will print, but its still being entered.

ahh i was waiting to see something appear n00b error but at least i know now, thanks.
--edit:whats the aim? im at level10 now was easy enough.

[This message has been edited by laerif (edited 11-06-2002).]