telnet not working

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 1 May 2003, vivek chawla wrote:

> When i type telnet www.asdf.com 80
> it says asdf.com : unknown host
>
> Also when i type status it says
> not connected
> On all other computers these commands work well
>
> please help.

Doesn't look like a Cygwin problem...  Try "ping www.asdf.com".  Try
accessing www.asdf.com using the Windows version of telnet.  If you get
the same response, you'll need to fix your network connection settings in
Windows.
	Igor
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