On Thursday 06 November 2003 2:34 pm, David C. Hart wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 09:21, Stephan Viljoen wrote: > > Some off my clients started complaining that they're having problems > > connecting to my mail server. Now all this worked fine up until > > yesterday. I'm not blocking any ports nor am I blocking ICMP on the > > network. > > Rather slow but . . . > > [root@mail2 root]# telnet 217.10.176.138 25 > Trying 217.10.176.138... > Connected to 217.10.176.138. Sure, the mail server is responding, but that doesn't explain the internal network response to the pings. I don't think you can trace this problem from the outside. My question to Stephan is: Why do you have multiple network ranges all plugged in to eth1 on the Firewall? Looks like a bad idea to me (I'm not saying it won't work, but I really don't like it). Regards, Antony. -- The only problem with the Universe as a platform, though, is that it is currently running someone else's program. - Ken Karakotsios, author of SimLife Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.