Hello Fellow Arachnids: Our local library has internet work-stations on a DSL connection to the same ISP I use, "shentel.net".
The work stations don't have a Telnet client installed. At the library of course they don't allow patrons to install their own software on the library work-stations. One thing that is allowed is to run programs on your own floppy disk. Yesterday at the library I ran two different Telnet clients from a floppy disk. One was a Windows program, YAWTEL32. This one worked just fine on port 23. I got into my unix shell account and also I got into "linuxfreemail.com" and I ran Pine in Telnet session. One thing I was not able to do was to get into my pop3 server at "shentel.net" on port 110. I was able to contact the server and it responded with the "+OK" prompt. I was unable to input anything on the screen. I could not enter my "user" and "pass". Does anybody have any theory as to why I couldn't even get into my own pop3 account on port 110? Does the DSL type of connection pose a problem in this regard? The other Telnet client I tried was TN3270.EXE, the CUTCP DOS Telnet client that you can get as an APM for Arachne. In my CONFIG.TEL I entered "3com" in place of "packet" for "hardware". When I tried to use this program it attempted to do BOOTPs but it was unsuccessful. This program can successfully do BOOTP on a DOS machine having a modem connection to "shentel.net". The library machine has a DSL connection. Maybe the DOS Telnet client would work if I were to indicate the actual IP number of the machine in my CONFIG.TEL. How can I find out the IP number of the machine? I know how to find that out on a DOS machine, but not on a Windows machine. Normally I don't do Windows. Normally I do only what the normal people do. Please help me. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
