Forget the ping, it may well be discarded by a firewall. Telnet to the remote mailserver on port 25 by typing this into the command line...
telnet mail.spectra.ca 25 if that fails try.... telnet 24.85.12.237 25 if that works, look at your DNS. If it fails, phone your ISP. Dan. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Force [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 March 2002 16:29 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Host Unreachable I'm not at the site where I can ping from the Exchange server but I will give that a shot this afternoon. I have been having some intermitant DNS issues so that must be it. Thanks to all that replied. Scott. > I can get there from here. > See if you can telnet to their mail server (mail.spectra.ca) FROM the > exchange server. If you cant, you probably have some DNS issues. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Force [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 7:48 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Host Unreachable > > > Good Morning, > I'm running Exchange 5.5/4 (NT4.0/6a). I'm having problems sending > e-mail to a specific domain, spectra.ca or spectraesolutions.com. Any > e-mail to those domains sits in my IMS outbound queue. They can send to me > but when I reply I run into the same problem. I've contacted the admin of > that domain and he told me they are running Exchange 2000 and they are not > requiring reverse DNS lookup. Any thoughts? > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
