John, This may be a shot in the dark, but try turning off the firewall in Win XP when you're connecting through your LEAF router and see what happens.
-- Thanks, Sak. ----- On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:46:17PM -0800, John Wittenberg wrote: > A few weeks back, our ISP decided that they were going to upgrade the mail > servers. On the day they were upgraded we could no longer access the mail > servers. My wife, who was and still may be extremely pissed, spent two > days with the Technicians who could not help. At the end of the second > day, my wife mentioned that we had a router and was told that was the > problem. That evening I removed the LEAF router and the mail connection > was _all well_ as the Windows XP box could connect to the mail server. > Thinking that the problem was with my setup of the LEAF box, I am using > Dachstein CD V1.0.2, I set up the box to use the default Dach settings. > This still did not allow connection to the mail server. At this time I was > beginning to believe that DNS could be that problem. About a year and a > half ago, the ISP changed the mail server name. Using XP's built in > _firewall_ I discovered the IP address for the mail server and using that > instead of a the FQN, I was able to get access to the mail server through > the LEAF box with the XP Box. > > So thinking that since the XP box could connect to the mail server without > the LEAF box using the FQN, I changed the LEAF box, at least I think I did, > to use my ISP's DNS instead of dnscache in the LEAF box. But alass this > _still did not_ work. I added my ISPs servers to DNS0 and DNS1 and set > CONFIG_DNS to YES. Soooo, on a hunch I changed my mail Client to access > the original mail server name and it works! Original server name = > mail.cablespeed.com and the one that was working before the change = > mail.bllvwa.cablespeed.com. > > The real question becomes, why when using the mail server name when > connected direct from XP it works, where as having the LEAF box connected > using the mail server name does not work. Is there some difference when > using the ISP DNS versus going through the LEAF box with the ISP DNSs > identified. > > Thanks for any and all help in advance and sorry about the convoluted > message. > > John Wittenberg > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee when you click here. > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
