From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: smtp authentication (sendmail relay)
Date: 17 Dec 2000 15:27:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylvgsivdap.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "17 Dec 2000 15:03:02 -0800"
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> bsd > telnet smtp.newsguy.com 25
> Trying 209.155.56.71...
> telnet: connect to address 209.155.56.71: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
> Script done on Sun Dec 17 14:44:35 2000
> I notice a lengthy pause between typing the telnet command to connect to
> smtp server and the error message being returned.
> Possibly something to do with my ISP DNS machine?. But seemsno way to
> connect to smtp server.
Perhaps your ISP is one of the ones that blocks port 25 connections to any
systems other than their local customer relay servers to try to cut down
on spam from their customers?
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-17 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-17 8:29 Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 9:06 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-17 16:53 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 19:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-19 0:13 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-19 1:51 ` Glenn Shiffer
2000-12-19 2:41 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 10:51 ` jas
2000-12-17 16:34 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-12-17 18:41 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-12-17 21:01 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 21:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-12-17 22:45 ` Colin Walters
2000-12-17 23:06 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 21:24 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 22:15 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 22:26 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:31 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 23:41 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:02 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-18 7:49 ` Steinar Bang
2000-12-17 21:29 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 21:45 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:03 ` Harry Putnam
2000-12-17 23:20 ` Lloyd Zusman
2000-12-17 23:27 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
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