[ale] RDP Throwin' Cannot-Find-Host Error

[Marc Ferguson]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Sean McNealy <sean.mcnealy at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I can certainly look into that when I get home.  I new to all of this, so
> > SSH, Telnet, RDP, they're all new.  I'll have to look into how to telnet
> > into my machine.
>
> What I'm suggesting is a telnet to the RDP port (RDP and telnet are
> both TCP).  A "telnet [hostname] 3389" command.  It's not entirely
> meaningful, but can tell you something.  After you start the session,
> type a couple letters.  If it responds with either garbage or the
> cursor flying around this at least tells you that the port is open for
> connections from the machine you're on.  If it says you never got a
> connection, you know the port's blocked somewhere.
>
> > As for firewall, are you talking about a software or
> > hardware firewall?  Thanks for the response.
> >
> > --
> > Marc F.
>
> I was originally thinking software on your linux box.  However, if all
> your testing has been done remotely from your home network, it may be
> your ISP blocking that port.  You'll want to route a different
> external port from your router, this also makes it so your service
> doesn't show up in scans.
>
> -Sean
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Hi Fellas,

I've always thought that I had my network not setup correctly for a long
time now.  Like I have some sort of DNS issue or something.  I'm not really
certain, networking with Linux has proven to be a bit more difficult than I
thought.

I tried the telnet command on my linux box and this is what i got:
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telnet> open 192.168.1.3
Trying 192.168.1.3...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.1.3: Connection refused
telnet> open 192.168.1.3 3389
Trying 192.168.1.3...
Connected to 192.168.1.3.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
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I then tried to ping my computer via localhost (unicron.cybertron) instead
of by the IP address.  I think something is wrong:
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[marc at unicron ~]$ ping unicron
PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.094 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=0.099 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64
time=0.101 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64
time=0.105 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64
time=0.100 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=6 ttl=64
time=0.098 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=7 ttl=64
time=0.108 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=8 ttl=64
time=0.110 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=9 ttl=64
time=0.099 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=10 ttl=64
time=0.105 ms
^C
--- localhost.localdomain ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9338ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.094/0.101/0.110/0.014 ms
[marc at unicron ~]$ ping unicron.cybertron
ping: unknown host unicron.cybertron
[marc at unicron ~]$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4D:27:AB:6E
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4dff:fe27:ab6e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:320071 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:340547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:185620968 (177.0 MiB)  TX bytes:72996517 (69.6 MiB)
          Interrupt:19

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1506 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1506 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:233082 (227.6 KiB)  TX bytes:233082 (227.6 KiB)

[marc at unicron ~]$
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-- 
Marc F.

www.fergytech.com
Registered Linux User: #410978

"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!" -Marc F.
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