mail.host.com was an example of an outside smtp server. I cant telnet to any of them. I have no mail servers internally. Also have tried just ip address instead of FQN .. no go. All machines behind firewall are win2k and winME. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:33:53 -0700
>At 01:58 PM 5/17/02 -0700, Jim Van Eeckhoutte wrote: >>i have bering rc1 with shorewall (firewall wide open)and i cant seem >>to telnet mail.host.com 25. I can ping it and tracert it. > >What is "mail.host.com" and where it is located? For example, is it a DMZ >server of yours on its own interface, using port-forwarding from the router? >Is it your ISP's mail forwarder? Is it the router itself? Is it an off-LAN >mail server at another site run by your company? Or is it something else? > >Is it the same machine from which the LAN clients receive their POP3 mail? >If so, does the POP3 access program also use "mail.host.com" to identify the >server, or something else? > >If you tell the SMTP client (which one is it, BTW?) to find the SMTP server >by its actual IP address, does that do any better? Or can you telnet to its >port 25 if you use its actual IP address? > >If it is your machine ... what OS does it run and what SMTP server package? >Is it set up to do DNS resolution properly? Can the SMTP server telnet to >its own port 25 successfully? > >If it is your ISP's machine ... does it require any authentication before >accepting SMTP traffic for forwarding? > >>Bering firewall is setup with dialup connection to verizon(ppp0) >>and masq(eth0)to lan. >>All computers behind the firewall get web and also can recieve mail >>(pop) but cant send(smtp). Please help. thank you > > >-- >------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- >Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo >Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] >---------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________________________ Hundreds of nodes, one monster rendering program. Now that�s a super model! Visit http://clustering.foundries.sf.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
