Arnold meant on server side, not on your side. The server accepts the connection, so there must be some software issue on the Confederation application side.

'night

Gregory

2010/6/16 Linus Wegmann <linus.wegmann@gmx.ch>
Hi Arnold
thanks for your reply
but it stilll doesn't work

linus@tuxilap2:pts/4:~> ping www.eda.admin.ch
PING dmzwg1-003.eda.admin.ch (162.23.6.139) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- dmzwg1-003.eda.admin.ch ping statistics ---
16 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 14999ms

linus@tuxilap2:pts/4:~> telnet www.eda.admin.ch 80

Trying 162.23.6.139...
Connected to dmzwg1-003.eda.admin.ch.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

what am I doing wrong?

Linus