Maybe there is a firewall blocking you from getting in from off campus. Have you tried telneting from off campus?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Forman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Paul Sack'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:56 PM Subject: RE: Fetchmail problem with mail.utexas.edu > Paul, > > [jforman@westernwall jforman]$ telnet buffy.exe.utexas.edu > buffy.exe.utexas.edu: Unknown host > [jforman@westernwall jforman]$ > > Yes, I am using Outlook XP for pop3. I tried using fetchmail with imap > and same thing. > I tried telnetting to port 143 (imap) from my linux machine to > mail.utexas.edu and it times out. And same thing happened when trying on > port 23, no response, times out. I can telnet fine to port 110, 143, etc > from my internal machine (win2k) and it works fine. > > > I am using iptables, but a simple line masq'ing all my internal traffic > out. Nothing fancy. > $IPTABLE -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $EXTERNALETH -s $INTERNALNET -j > MASQUERADE > > - jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Sack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:52 PM > To: Jeffrey Forman > Subject: RE: Fetchmail problem with mail.utexas.edu > > > This is very strange. I doubt it is your telnet program. > > My theory is that something between you and .utexas.edu is filtering the > telnet and pop3 ports. Are you using pop3 w/ Outlook? Or something else? > mail.utexas.edu also supports IMAP, so you could try that. Are you using > ipchains? > > Also, try to telnet to buffy.ece.utexas.edu. (You can't login of course, > but it might help to determine what the problem is.) > > -- > 10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
