Patricia Ballad wrote:
>
> I've had a similar problem with my ISP (AT&T @Home) refusing connections from my
>linux box. Solution: I put together a bare-bones system w/ old parts I had lying
>around, loaded Win95 and a proxy server. Now the ISP is happy (it's getting
>connections from a windows box), I'm happy (my linux box connects to the 'net again),
>and all those guys out there floating Code Red & Co. are happily requesting 'cmd.exe'
>from my linux firewall that sits behind the windows proxy. I call it The Tao of
>Relation to One's ISP.
>
> Good luck.
>
FWIW -
You may not have had to run the windows proxy. I don't have att@home
myself but some of the people in our local Linux Users Group do. Here is
part of a thread discussing this topic recently. It all appears to
center around the host name sent to att@home when the IP address is
obtained dynamically - they refuse to lease unless it's right.
Adam McDougall wrote:
>I use isc-dhcp client and I have to put my given "computer name" in
>etc/dhclient.conf because @home's dhcp server bases identity off of that
>instead of the ethernet address. Substitute your network interface for
>ed0. My installation technicion said the IP should remain the
>same unless they need to replace a piece of equipment I forgot the name
>of.
>
>interface "ed0" {
> send host-name "C1666644-A";
>}
>
> Adam
>
>
> Jeremiah Korreck wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any experience with setting up redhat with att@home,
> > I'm running version 7.1 with a dual boot to win2k.
> > Jeremiah Korreck
> >
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> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Daniel Anderson wrote:
>
> Dan--
>
> What does your fetchmail log say? Simply "connection refused"? Can you
> telnet to port 110 to talk directly to the pop server? What email client
> are you using on the Windows side?
>
> Sorry, I have more questions than answers. I have heard news that certain
> ISP's are going to allow only certain pop clients (i.e. LookOut, and its
> variants) to access their services.
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to get some opinions on this problem before I contact the
> > isp. I've been running fetchmail to get my mail every four hours for
> > several months now,with no problems until oct 8,when the mail
> > server,postoffice3.bellatlantic.net ,stopped accepting my connections. I
> > am unable to connect with any mail program on the machine. I was able to
> > connect one time with Netscape from the other machine on the network,the
> > next connection was refused. I booted this machine into windows and have
> > no problem connecting at any time. I installed Mandrake 8.0 on another
> > machine and was able to connect one time only with a dialup connection
> > only ,not connected to my network. I have 3 machine on the network
> > including the firewall. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? Any
> > opinions will be appreciated.
>
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