Below is the original message about having problems with virtual IP
addresses
Anthony J. Biacco (thelittleprince) responded asking if I could telnet from
the same machine that I was having outlook problems and I responded with
You did hit on something that I did not think about. When I telnet
to the pophost I am doing it from another UNIX hosts, yet the Outlook
problem is on a WinXP laptop that I use for my desktop. So I started a cmd
window and tried to telnet from my Window workstation to pophost and it does
not work. My mind was tunneled in thinking it was the pophost side and not
the exchange side. As a matter of fact I fixed a persons Netscape mail,
which runs on a UNIX system, and he was able to read his email using
pophost.
When I "telnet pophost.xxx.yyy.edu 110" from my PC WinXP laptop
which has a static IP address, it just hangs just like it does in Outlook.
I can "ping pophost" from my PC WinXP laptop and it works just fine.
I can also do nslookup on names and I get back the correct info.
SO HUMMMM. Any ideas what would cause this.
Thanks againg for your help. That is why I like groups. Sometime you
get stuck looking at the problem one way and others see it another way.
SOOOO now the question is what would keep my PC WinXP laptop from not being
able to telnet into pophost.xxx.yyy.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: McGraw, Robert P.
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 2:56 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Proble with qpopper and virtual IP addresses
I am having a problem running qpopper on a virtual host name.
1. Running qpopper 4.0.5
2. Running Solaris 5.9 on a Sun Netra
3. Have set up the following in the ifconfig.
le0 hostname.xxx.yyy.edu
le0:1 mailhost.xxx.yyy.edu
le0:2 pophost.xxx.yyy.edu
Problem:
I can "telnet pophost.xxx.yyy.edu 110" and connect to the pophost and go
through the test pop login. This connects and shows messages with the list
command.
If I use pophost.xxx.yyy.edu as the incoming server name in a mail reader,
such as exchange, it will not make a connection. I do not even see any debug
info in the log files. If I use hostname.xxx.yyy.edu in the mail reader it
will work just fine.
I can ping, telnet into, and nslookup on the virutal IP address so I
believe they are set up correctly working correctly
What would cause the virutal IP address not to work and the real IP to work
in a mail reader. It seems like it is getting confuse in the sending and
receiving of packets when it goes to the virtual IP address.
Any thoughts or suggestions on how to resolve this problem.
Thanks
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Robert P. McGraw, Jr.
System Administrator EMAIL1:
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Purdue University ROOM: MATH-807
Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055
150 N. University Avenue FAX: (419) 821-0540
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 EMAIL2: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
