From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 17:13:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E7E416A4BF for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26EDB43F75 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8E0D0Uc001978; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:13:00 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h8E0D08g001977; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:13:00 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:13:00 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: yo _ Message-ID: <20030914001259.GA1752@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP: Operation Timed Out X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 00:13:04 -0000 On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:32:55PM -0400, yo _ wrote: [...] > At home i tried connecting to these servers via telnet on port 25 as well, > and it worked with ease. Then immediatly I ssh'ed to our remote mail server > and telnet'ed to these "operation timed out" mail servers on port 25 and > still same thing. Now this shocked me, how could i be easily connecting to > the mail servers from home, and from the location of our mail server, not > be able to. The big question is whether you've got firewall rules in place that could be blocking traffic. The rules could possibly be on your end or the receiving side. If the maillogs do not indicate a connection on the receivers, this could very likely be the problem. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck" - Curly