Paul Haesler wrote: > Hi all, > > Just experienced a very weird problem. > > My Debian box has 2 NIC's: eth1 connects to the cable modem > and the outside world, eth0 connects to the Windoze boxen on my > LAN (192.168.1.0/8 - Masqueraded access to outside world.) > > Yesterday I had a weird thing. My Debian box could not connect > to my ISP's SMTP server - no response whatsoever. What's weird > is I could connect to the same box on the same port from my > masqueraded Windoze boxes!! > > Bringing the external ethernet interface down and back up again > fixed the problem - but why was it happening in the first place? > > Has anybody else seen anything like this, or have any theories > as to what was going on? > > Paul Haesler > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Was it the same IP address after you brought it down and up? I believe they have several different mail servers. Possibly the one your server was sending to was no longer there but you had cached the address? Just guessing. Jack
