To start working with Telnet Client, have a look at these instructions:
- First, just to prove our point here, let's open up Command Prompt on our testing client machine and try to ping WEB1 using the ping web1 command. Because ICMP is being blocked by the firewall, all we get is a series of timeouts:
- Now let's use the Telnet command to accomplish some more intuitive digging into whether or not WEB1 is online and functional. Note that Telnet Client is not available inside Command Prompt by default; it is a Windows feature that must be installed. On the client machine we are using to test, head into Control Panel | Programs ...