[afnog] Cannot connect to remote pop3 server

[Shepherd Magumo]

Thanks Frank I am trying the tool now.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz> wrote:
> try a tool called tcptraceroute
>
>> 2. Can i work around this problem via some traffic tunneling of some
>> sort via the UK server?
> yes, but do you want to?
> no.
>
>
> Frank
>
>
> On 02/18/09 16:26, Shepherd Magumo wrote:
>>
>> Good day,
>>
>> We connect to the internet via two independent service providers and
>> both connections cannot connect to a remote Pop3 server called
>> pop3.zonnet.nl on port 110.
>> In troubleshooting the problem I tried telnet pop3 port 110 via the
>> two ISPs and a similar test from a UK based server that we are
>> hosting.
>>
>> The result is, when I do telnet pop3.zonnet.nl 110 from UK I get a
>> response, but a timeout via our two ISPs. As a result our clients
>> using this incoming server cannot receive pop3 emails.
>>
>> [admin at ISP1#] > system telnet  pop3.zonnet.nl 110
>> ERR Cannot connect to POP server 62.58.50.236 (62.58.50.236:110), connect
>> error
>> 10060
>>
>> [admin at ISP2#] > system telnet  pop3.zonnet.nl 110
>> ERR Cannot connect to POP server 62.58.50.236 (62.58.50.236:110), connect
>> error
>> 10060
>>
>> [root at UK-server]# telnet pop3.zonnet.nl 110
>> Trying 62.58.50.236...
>> Connected to pop3.zonnet.nl (62.58.50.236).
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> +OK POP3 Ready 10.170.1.173 0001fe31
>>
>> ISPs are saying there is nothing they can do because this is a global
>> issue ( South Africa). Two questions:
>>
>> 1. Anyone else getting similar connect error elsewhere?
>> 2. Can i work around this problem via some traffic tunneling of some
>> sort via the UK server?
>>
>> Please help. Any comments and ideas are welcome.
>>
>> Shepherd
>>
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