Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 22:34, Steve Clark <sclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hmm... I am not having any problem connecting from the U.S. <snip>> >> telnet 178.63.65.136 25 >> Trying 178.63.65.136... >> Connected to 178.63.65.136. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> ^] >> telnet> close >> Connection closed. > > Exactly the problem! It pings fine (so I know that connections can be > established over the physical wires) and on the IP address telnet > answers. However, telnet to port 25 (smtp) with the domain name fails. > Why could that be? Bingo! DNS. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos