On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:31:13AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (20/07/04 10:31), Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > nc -l -p 2080 -e /bin/sh > > on tty2 or whatever suits. > Thanks Stephen > > I used the above on tty2, which from the man page I understand means > that this machine will listen for shell commands on port 2080. However, > when try to contact this host from my workstation using: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nc -t Homer 2080 > Homer.PRIORYROAD [192.168.1.21] 2080 (?) : No route to host Either the machine isn't really on the network or you have a routing problem. Does ifconfig show you have a configured network on Homer? What about route -n? It's good to see a default gateway. -t isn't necessary, I'm not sure what effect it would have. Can you ping 192.168.1.21? Can Homer wget some random web page? -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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