Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:41:30 -0400
From: Edwin Olson <eolson@MIT.EDU>

   Howdy,

   I'm the author of WinMD5. I noticed a whole bunch of hits against my website
   referred by a posting to linux-list from April, and found your name. (The
   link in your email
   [62]http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/linux-list/2003-April/055560.html contains
   a spurious period, so my server was getting a lot of 404s).

   FYI, The best web page to point people to is:

        [63]http://www.blisstonia.com/software/WinMD5

   There's also a much nicer version 2.0 available now (still free, of course
   :) I would appreciate any feedback you might have.

   Thanks for recommending my utility. It's nice to know folks are using it!

   -Ed

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telnet connection problem

   Karl-Heinz Herrmann ([64]k.-h.herrmann from fz-juelich.de)
   Question by gho boo (lovelearninggtmhh from 37.com)

   i am trying to use telnet to learn more about internet protocols but every
   time i try to make a connention through the telnet i get a refuse message
   says couldnot make a connection to the web site. what i do is fisrt make a
   connection to the internet then i put in the host name the following address
   "whois.internic.com" and leave the term type and every thing else as it was
   but i also fail 

     [K.-H.] Well --- learning more about internet protocols is certainly
     worthwhile  especiall  since you've no clue. On the other hand this
     mailinglist you sent your question to is called *linux-questions-only*.
     Why would you guess somebody has a funny E-Mail adress like that? Because
     we are network and internet protocol specialists?

     For further asking question at this place consider reading:

     [65]http://www.linuxgazette.com/tag/ask-the-gang.html

     AND recommended places to find information like search linuxgazette,
     google or the Linux documentation project www.tldp.org which incidentially
     has a network administrator guide which explains many basics:

     [66]http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/index.html

   i tried another addresses but invain i tried google.com,yahoo.com but no
   connection  was  there  maybe  the  proxy  setting  affect  the telnet
   connection??????????/ 

     [K.-H.] Certainly -- proxy is for the http (maybe ftp) protocol. This
     protocol definition includes a port number, usually 80. telnet on the
     other hand is a service usually not available to everybody and usually
     connecting to port 23 -- which is not covered by standard proxy services.

     Since you wanted to study network protocols you probably wanted to telnet
     to the webserver on any of the machines you tried.

     That could be done by: telnet www.whatever.com 80

     the 80 specifies that you do not want to connect to the regular telnet
     port (which should not be available on any big webserver as its a gaping
     security hole) but to the http-server which is listening on port 80.

     Maybe this gets you started in the right direction (i.e. start reading
     documentation).

   please help me to answer this question as i read in the website you have a
   fabulous information about this things thanks very much............... 

     You're welcome. To others reading this - the trick works for any purely
     text based protocol, as long as it only needs one port, and you have your
     hceat card at hand. I use it to test my mailservers for clients before
     taking them out of the lab, using telnet to port 25 and using raw SMTP or
     ESMTP commands. -- Heather
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networking problems(configuring a wi-fi card)

   Karl-Heinz Herrmann ([67]k.-h.herrmann from fz-juelich.de)
   Question by Ben Vargas (Ben from Vargasent.com)

   as of yesterday i fugured out my PCMCIA problem and have now configured my
   wi-fi card and everthiing seemed to be going well untill i launched the
   browser and i dont seem to be passing the IP adress to the browser, if i
   have  an  ip  address  at  all. and my real question is, is there a ip
   configuration utility for red hat 9 where i can see if i indeed have a ip
   address that was DHCP to my machine and if so where can i find this program.

   thanks for your time

   Benjamin Vargas