Can't hit e-mail servers

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2 total messages Started by Chris Daley Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:00

#11

Author: Chris Daley
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:00

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Trying to send mail from my mail server to Best's incoming mail
servers with the following results....

Tracing route to mail1.best.com [206.184.139.12]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1   <10 ms   <10 ms    10 ms  r1-fe0-0-100bt.frmt1.sfba.home.net
[24.1.64.1]
  2   <10 ms    10 ms   <10 ms  10.0.255.245
  3   <10 ms    10 ms   <10 ms  bb1-fe0-0-100bt.rdc1.sfba.home.net
[24.0.0.2]
  4   <10 ms    10 ms    10 ms  172.16.4.74
  5  mae-west.best.net [198.32.136.36]  reports: Destination net
unreachable.

Trace complete.

C:\>tracert mail2.best.com

Tracing route to mail2.best.com [206.184.139.12]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1   <10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  r1-fe0-0-100bt.frmt1.sfba.home.net
[24.1.64.1]
  2   <10 ms    10 ms   <10 ms  10.0.255.245
  3   <10 ms    10 ms   <10 ms  bb1-fe0-0-100bt.rdc1.sfba.home.net
[24.0.0.2]
  4   <10 ms    10 ms   <10 ms  172.16.4.74
  5  mae-west.best.net [198.32.136.36]  reports: Destination net
unreachable.

Trace complete.

Re: Can't hit e-mail servers

#12

Author: Smith and O'Halloran
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 00:00

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In article <364b2c0a.6604797@nntp1.ba.best.com>,
Chris Daley <chris@lodesys.com> wrote:
>Trying to send mail from my mail server to Best's incoming mail
>servers with the following results....
>
>Tracing route to mail1.best.com [206.184.139.12]
> 5 mae-west.best.net [198.32.136.36]  reports: Destination net unreachable.

That's normal.  It means "traceroute is not allowed".

If you want to debug sending mail, you'll need to try
"telnet mail1.best.com 25", not traceroute.
	-Joe
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