OpenSSL Command to check if a server is presenting a certificate

Question

I'm trying to run an openssl command to narrow down what the SSL issue might be when trying to send an outbound message from our system.

I found this command in another topic: Using openssl to get the certificate from a server

openssl s_client -connect ip:port -prexit

The output of this results in

CONNECTED(00000003)
15841:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake failure:s23_lib.c:188:
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 0 bytes and written 121 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
---

Does this mean the server isn't presenting any certificate? I tried other systems on a different ip:port and they present a certificate successfully.

Does mutual authentication affect this command with -prexit?

--Update--

I ran the command again

openssl s_client -connect ip:port -prexit

And I get this response now

CONNECTED(00000003)
write:errno=104
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 0 bytes and written 121 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
---

I added -ssl3 to the command

openssl s_client -connect ip:port -prexit -ssl3

Response:

CONNECTED(00000003)
write:errno=104
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 0 bytes and written 0 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : SSLv3
    Cipher    : 0000
    Session-ID: 
    Session-ID-ctx: 
    Master-Key: 
    Key-Arg   : None
    Krb5 Principal: None
    Start Time: 1403907236
    Timeout   : 7200 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---

Also trying -tls1

CONNECTED(00000003)
write:errno=104
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 0 bytes and written 0 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1
    Cipher    : 0000
    Session-ID: 
    Session-ID-ctx: 
    Master-Key: 
    Key-Arg   : None
    Krb5 Principal: None
    Start Time: 1403907267
    Timeout   : 7200 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---

Answer 1

I was debugging an SSL issue today which resulted in the same write:errno=104 error. Eventually I found out that the reason for this behaviour was that the server required SNI (servername TLS extensions) to work correctly. Supplying the -servername option to openssl made it connect successfully:

openssl s_client -connect domain.tld:443 -servername domain.tld

Hope this helps.