On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Jeff Dike wrote: > > When I try to telnet to it on 110 from my shell account (this mail > > account), QPOP answers me. So it's somehow related to the firewall. > > I hate to ask stupid questions, but can you make sure that your shell machine > and firewall agree on the IP address for maple.he.net? they do. both say it's 216.218.214.130. > > Could this have something to do with the fact that I'm blocking things > > like identd from coming through the firewall? > > I just checked this. I telnetted there and my identd got no probes (I > actually stopped my inetd, so the machine got no probes at all). hmmmmm. interesting. > What "connection refused" usually means is that the machine is up and > reachable, but there is no service on the port that you're trying to connect > to. That's why I'm wondering whether your two machines are connecting to > different servers. nope, they're both trying to get to the same IP and port. > However, through the magic of ipchains, I believe that > it's possible for he.net to have things set up to do checks like probe your > identd and then fake a "connection refused". But it doesn't look like that's > happening here. after a long chat on EFNet #linuxhelp, I decide to email the admins and see if something like that is going on. it happens sometimes for me with IRC servers, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's happening for POP3. I know that others behind my firewall can talk to their own external pop servers fine. srl ---- Shane Renee Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
