hi, I have two computers at home, both connected to the Internet, but not in lan or other connection between...

I tried to communicate with a computer via telnet with this command:

open 1xx.1xx.1.2xx 23

with the right Ip address of other machine but telnet tells me: failed to connect

how can I do to communicate with other computers via telnet?

I then tried to make a VB6 program to communicate with winsock, but i wanted communicate with this computer without a client application which is to accept the connection... there are a way???
thanks