Maybe you should try telnet to the ip address directly? :[root at toccata 12:47:10] etc#: :[root at toccata 12:47:15] etc#:w Trying 66.28.69.161... Connected to rainmaker.wunderground.com. Escape character is '^]'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Welcome to THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND telnet service! * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * * !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! * * * * We now have a way you can contribute to wunderground.com for use of this * * ad-free, no-cost telnet service: become a Weather Underground member! For * * just $5, join via: http://www.wunderground.com/members/signup.php * * * * !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! * * * * **Note: If you cannot get past this opening screen, you must configure * * your telnet program to send a line feed instead of just a carriage * * return, or use a different telnet program that does so. * * * * comments: jmasters at wunderground.com * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > I just tried telneting to rainmaker.wunderground.com on the standard telnet port, and it doesn't work. What I mean is that I could get in unlike before, but whenever I enter a city code, ask for a list of valid city codes, or ask for a valid list of state codes, it says something like network is down. This was yesterday, and today the telnet session simply times out. However, the web interface works grate. > Greg > > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:14:31PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > I just used it tonight. Though I recall opening up a telnet session > > manually to the same site, forgetting the port number and got same > > results. So I'm not sure what port 3000 does that isn't readily available > > to normal telnet users. > > > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > > > The last time I checked, port 3000 on rainmaker.wunderground.com is no longer available. > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:22:51PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > > With Slackware, the games has an expect script called 'weather' it in turn > > > > telnets to rainmaker.wunderground.com port 3000. Be to have expect > > > > installed from the tcl series or this script won't run. > > > > > > > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > > > > > > > Here is a script I use. I call it 'wxw'. > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > > lynx http://braille.wunderground.com/ > > > > > > > > > > I guess I might as well have made it an alias instead of a > > > > > script. > > > > > Chuck > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi. I know this was discussed before however I can't find it in the > > > > > > archives by searching for the subject keyword "weather". > > > > > > > > > > > > How can I find weather tempratures and forcasts from the shell? Is > > > > > > there a text program I can install or is there a service I can telnet > > > > > > into to find out/ > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are real > > > > > > good, you will get out of it. > > > > > > Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > > > > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (91% of Full) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
