telnet is not present here on the system (for safety I presume)

> On 7 Sep 2018, at 17:45, Harald Koenig <koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 07, Alan Braslau wrote:
> 
>> rsync uses port 873
>> 
>> This often gets blocked at many sites.
> 
> an easy and "naiive" test can be trying to connect to that port via rsync:
> 
> 
> 	telnet 193.2.4.200 rsync
> or
> 	telnet 193.2.4.200 873
> 
> 
> the output should look similar to this if that outgoing port is open (not blocked):
> 
> 	Trying 193.2.4.200...
> 	Connected to 193.2.4.200.
> 	Escape character is '^]'.
> 	@RSYNCD: 31.0
> 
> 
> Harald
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