telnet on a nameserver on a port ??

[Danny Mayer]

		I'd use netcat which is far more suited to the task and supports UDP.

			Danny

At 09:40 AM 10/16/00 -0700, Hetal Rach wrote:
>
>Hi friends,
>
>I had posted a question a couple of days back on my c
>program being unable to connect to a remote machine
>which is running a nameserver. here is another small
>question related to it..
>
>can i do a telnet to a machine on a specific port and
>get some data ? 
>if so, what do i do for that..
>
>I'm enclosing the mail i had sent earlier.
>
>> Hi bind-users,
>> 
>> I have a bind 8 nameserver running on a RedHat 6.2,
>> and i am
>> using bind API's to dynamically update the dns
>> entries. When run
>> from a solaris box, the program works fine, but when
>> run from an
>> HP box, res_send gives me ECONNREFUSED. 
>> What I understnad from above is that res_send is
>> telling me that
>> the name server is not running on the remote host.
>But
>> nslookup 
>> command works perfectly fine from the same box.
>> 
>> ANy help regarding why this mught be occuring ?? or
>is
>> there some
>> HP specific stuff that i'm missing out ??
>> 
>> I'm using HPUX 11.0 on D Class machines.
>> 
>
>
>
>thanks,
>hetal
>
>
>
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