Thank you I tested this today morning from the windows machine and it is behaving the same ( connection refused ). So I guess Its the host. I have a call with the Host admin some time today. This test should help me point the issue to him. Thanks Tharun On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Rohan Gilchrist<rohan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I could only connect 3 times out of 10. This was from my > Mac laptop running Leopard. It would appear that something abnormal > is happening on this host. > > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Tharun Kumar Allu wrote: > >> Hi I have been facing a strange connectivity problem from CentOS and >> Fedora boxes. >> >> When I telnet to >> $ telnet adp.eease.com 443 >> >> it works fine some times and every 5-10 tries or so it says connection >> refused. And this does not happen from my windows box. >> >> Can anyone from this list try this on their linux installation and see >> if they get the same behaviour? >> >> Thanks >> Tharun _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos