MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 31/03/2012 12:49, BIll Spikowski told the world:
This week I used two different wi-fi connections each day while on a
business trip.
On one connection, I had normal full access to the web and to my
incoming and outgoing email using Seamonkey.
On the other connection, I had full access to the web, but could not
access my regular email account either through Seamonkey or through
webmail (all other websites operated normally).
I've experienced similar email blockages while traveling other places.
I doubt it's a Seamonkey problem, but I'm wondering what a workaround
might be?
If it were only an issue while using the Seamonkey mail client, I would
think some sort of firewall blocking POP/IMAP/SMTP connections. Rare
nowadays, but still possible.
However, you say you are unable to connect via webmail. But webmail is a
standard Web connection -- if you block that, you block everything.
So, it seems the problem is that you cannot connect to your ISP in any
way. That really sounds to me like some sort of DNS problem -- for some
reason, you are unable to find the correct server from that particular
connection. You might try to set up your Wi-Fi card to use a specific
public DNS server, like OpenDNS or Google DNS, instead of whatever DNS
the wi-fi connection offers you.
I didn't think of DNS, because I would expect a visible error message for
non-resolved names. But a wrong IP would cause the issue, and I know about wrong
IP resoluition, since my nameserver has blocked out some of the ad/trace/evil
sites and resolves them to an internal server.
It's also possible that your ISP is being actively blocked for some
reason -- maybe it got into one of those "blackhole" lists -- and a
firewall is forbidding connections to it.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
We are not out of the woods yet, but we know the direction and have
taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination. -me, 2010
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