hmm thanks. okay my setup is like this. maybe i did something wrong here. I am a wireless Isp or soon to be. sold the dailup side. anyhoot restarting the whole thing yipppee. our company lan is behind a lrp router/firewall. the internet servers (web,mail,ftp) are not. or not suppose to be. our websites come up. www.florida-wireless.com,www.dsisteel.com,www.gwei.net but no mail. i use a 2511 cisco router. can anyone ping the machine 208.62.146.34 ? so not sure what is up then if not dns cuz that is what i thought it was. thanks mark ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 16:48:08 +0100 > >>mailserver.florida-wireless.com. in a 208.62.145.34 > >DNS Expert and my telnetting cannot get any SMTP response from that >ip on port 25. > ># telnet 208.62.145.34 25 >Trying 208.62.145.34... >Connected to 208.62.145.34. >Escape character is '^]'. >Connection closed by foreign host. > >I don't get an Imail or other mailserver banner even. > >Firewall? > >Is Imail SMTP seen to be running from your LAN? can you telnet to >port 25 from your LAN or from behind your firewall. > >You have RTFMsg's and applied them well. Your DNS is not the pb. > >Len > > > >http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : Binary for ISC BIND 8.2.3 T6B for NT4 & W2K >http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
