[Wylug-help] email problem

[James Holden]

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On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 17:51, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, James Holden wrote:
>
> > This doesn't look like a problem with your mailserver. The message
> > suggests that the other recipient timed out too.
>
> <snip>
>
> >>   john at ukzone.com
> >>     Connection timed out:
> >>     retry timeout exceeded
> >>   mwb at blackhurstswainson.co.uk
> >>     Connection timed out:
> >>     retry timeout exceeded
>
> Slap me if I'm being dim, I've had one of those days:
>
> mx for ukzone.com is mail.ukzone.com
> mx for blackhurstswainson.co.uk is mail.blackhurstswainson.co.uk
>
> Both have the same IP 195.8.178.184
>
> telnet 195.8.178.184 25
> telnet: connect to address 195.8.178.184: No route to host
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host
>
> jh

not what I get.

james at thinkpad james $ telnet 195.8.178.184 25
Trying 195.8.178.184...
Connected to 195.8.178.184.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 darwen.gvl99.co.uk ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.11.6; Thu, 25 Nov 2004
20:44:40 GMT
QUIT
221 2.0.0 darwen.gvl99.co.uk closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.


... but your result could be indicative of a larger problem. I've
noticed a few strange routing problems round these parts over the last
month or so. The other week I couldn't reach my colo box, but I could
ssh to another box elsewhere, and then onto my colo box from there.


James
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