How to ping a port?

Jon12345 · 13 Oct 2009 at 14:21

I have two Win XP PC's and want to see if I can reach port 2000 on PC2 from PC1.

How do I test for this?

Thanks,

Jon

paradigm · 13 Oct 2009 at 14:32

You want to probe a port, not ping it.

Jon12345 · 13 Oct 2009 at 14:37

paradigm · 13 Oct 2009 at 14:59

http://www.angryip.org/w/Home

Jon12345 · 13 Oct 2009 at 15:13

Thanks for that. I have run it and under ports it shows [n/s]. That is after pausing protection on Kaspersky on both PC's.

Does this mean that no port is available?

Jon12345 · 13 Oct 2009 at 15:21

Ok, found it means not scanned. Right, PC1 shows port 2000 but PC2 has [n/a]. Going to run same program on PC2.

Jon12345 · 13 Oct 2009 at 15:36

When I run the software on both machines, the results show that it can find port 2000 on PC1 but nothing on PC2. So, I figure I have a port blockage on PC2!

Now I just have to work out how to free it up. I am using Kaspersky 7 on PC2. Any ideas?

NathanE · 13 Oct 2009 at 15:44

Usually I use telnet for a quick'n'dirty port probe.

telnet <hostname or IP> <port number>

If the port is open the screen will go blank or print some text/character. If the port is closed you'll get an error message.