[TriLUG] accessing mail.trilug.org, port 993

[Brian Daniels]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:34:20PM -0500, Alan Porter wrote:
> 
> "telnet mail.trilug.org 25" hangs.
> 
> My traceroute tests from home show that I can get as far as Inflow.
> But not much further.
> 
> traceroute to mail.trilug.org (64.244.27.141), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
> 1  funky (172.31.1.1)  3.605 ms  3.752 ms  3.901 ms
> 2  68.216.218.60 (68.216.218.60)  14.949 ms  13.685 ms  14.265 ms

It looks like you are on Bellsouth.net service?  BS blocks access to port 25, 
so trying to telnet to that port will hang.

--Brian

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