From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 20 13:33:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web10804.mail.yahoo.com (web10804.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D28F37B403 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:33:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20011020203321.78738.qmail@web10804.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.32.131.210] by web10804.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:33:21 PDT Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:33:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Bara Zani Subject: freebsd 4.4 with dsl blocking outgoing smtp connections ? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi GuruZZZZZZZ , I'm running a freebsd 4.4 gateway connected to earthlink dsl . i can use almost all ip services using any box on the lan 9 mirc ftp http pop3 etc ...) only problem i have is with smtp . i cannot connect to any smtp servers out there . i tried telneting to port 25 of the servers from the freebsd box but get "connection timed out" . i can ping the host . for example : ping smtp.mail.yahoo.com will work but telent smtp.mail.yahoo.com will not . i am not running any firewall ( rc.conf - firewall_enable="NO" ) and i use the nat enable yes in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf . please let me know if there's any more tests i can do / more info you need . thanks Bara Zani __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message