i just tried that example, telnet speech.braille.uwo.ca 25 network is unreachable, is what i get. tried it 2 times. On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Actually, we don't at all care what mail ports on the ISP's address > are listening. What we do care about is if he can send mail to other > servers besides his ISP on port 25. You can determine that for example > as follows: > > telnet speech.braille.uwo.ca 25 > > If speech.braille.uwo.ca responds, then he doesn't need to use his > ISP. If speech.braille.uwo.ca doesn't respond, then he's limited to > using his ISP to send mail, unless he can find someone else to relay > through. Even if he can send mail by himself, he still may not be able > to send it to every server if he's on a dynamic IP, as someone else > has already pointed out. > > Greg > > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:02:55AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: >> A nmap -P0 on the ISP's address would tell us quickly what mail ports >> are listening. >> > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCE41G7s9z/XlyUyARAsGgAJ9g8acp2/gcLaJo6BEXksqCgDHFZACfXlhc > lVSsgOVofg7wxDWNUDSJn64= > =zBtU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
