I've had a similar problem with my ISP (AT&T @Home) refusing connections from my linux box. Solution: I put together a bare-bones system w/ old parts I had lying around, loaded Win95 and a proxy server. Now the ISP is happy (it's getting connections from a windows box), I'm happy (my linux box connects to the 'net again), and all those guys out there floating Code Red & Co. are happily requesting 'cmd.exe' from my linux firewall that sits behind the windows proxy. I call it The Tao of Relation to One's ISP.
Good luck. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8:47:25 AM Tuesday, October 23, 2001 >>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Daniel Anderson wrote: Dan-- What does your fetchmail log say? Simply "connection refused"? Can you telnet to port 110 to talk directly to the pop server? What email client are you using on the Windows side? Sorry, I have more questions than answers. I have heard news that certain ISP's are going to allow only certain pop clients (i.e. LookOut, and its variants) to access their services. > Hi all, > > I'd like to get some opinions on this problem before I contact the > isp. I've been running fetchmail to get my mail every four hours for > several months now,with no problems until oct 8,when the mail > server,postoffice3.bellatlantic.net ,stopped accepting my connections. I > am unable to connect with any mail program on the machine. I was able to > connect one time with Netscape from the other machine on the network,the > next connection was refused. I booted this machine into windows and have > no problem connecting at any time. I installed Mandrake 8.0 on another > machine and was able to connect one time only with a dialup connection > only ,not connected to my network. I have 3 machine on the network > including the firewall. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? Any > opinions will be appreciated. +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Craig Sprout | "Send lawyers, guns and money | | Billings, MT | to get me out of this. Quick!" | | http://www.mtsprouts.net | --Warren Zevon | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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