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Re: ICQ under Linux
- To: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: ICQ under Linux
- From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi(at-nospam)meron.openu.ac.il>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:52:14 +0300 (IDT)
- Cc: Alex <chalex(at-nospam)netvision.net.il>, Israeli Linux Mailing List <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
[snip]
>
> The fact that a server does not answer pings does not mean that it is not
> alive. That computer may simply ignoring those packets, or some firewall
> along the way may be dropping them. Actually I don't remember that this
> spesific server has even answered pings in the last two years.
>
> You can try a more direct test. If the server was listening on a TCP port
> then I would have suggested to use 'telnet fes-d001.icq.aol.com 4000' to
> check the connection. But it seems that this is a UDP-based protocol, so
> it is not that simple.
Try using netcat for UDP(TCP as well)
coast.cs.purdue.edu:/pub/tools/unix/netcat/nc110.tgz
>Still, have you tried simply giving this address to
> licq as the server name? It works for me...
[snipped]
-
Rafi
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