>> I am a Ph.D. student at Cornell ORIE. I saw a Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF lying 
>> around in our department and decided to install OpenBSD on it. The machine 
>> does not have WiFi connectivity, but there is an RJ45 Ethernet jack, so I 
>> plugged a cable in, and wrote a standard hostname.em0
>> 
>> --- google.com ping statistics ---
>> 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
>> round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 0.646/0.693/0.738/0.044 m
>> 
>> werebane# traceroute -n google.com
>> traceroute to google.com (132.236.61.7), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
>> 1  * 132.236.181.1  7.108 ms  1.274 ms
>> 2  132.236.222.161  0.443 ms 128.253.222.161  0.524 ms  0.305 ms
>> 3  128.253.222.114  0.572 ms 132.236.222.110  0.671 ms 128.253.222.114  
>> 0.735 ms
>> 4  132.236.61.7  0.703 ms  0.688 ms  0.673 m

>> Initially I thought this might be due to some firewall configuration in our 
>> department, but that is unlikely because I’m trying to access ports on 
>> *remote* machines. Moreover, another Windows machine connecting to the same 
>> network switch have no problem accessing websites via HTTPS.
>> 
>> How do I connect to ports other than 80 on remote machines? Any thoughts are 
>> appreciated!

Have you checked the systems clock?  SSL will break if the system date is more 
than seven days away from reality.

(I’m guessing there are multiple issues here - ftp and SSH might be blocked by 
IT, etc.)

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