[100740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Friendly XO Mail-operational contact ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Wed Nov 7 07:56:33 2007
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0711070450l6289aba8y7628b9f3dc576ae6@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog list" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 12:55:02 +0000
To: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 7 Nov 2007, at 12:50, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> You sure XO hasn't been playing with banner delays, and your MTA is
> timing out before establishing an smtp connection?
Yep
andy@chilli:~$ time telnet dalsmlprd08.dal.dc.xo.com 25
Trying 207.88.96.46...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
real 0m0.170s
I did call their NOC who couldn't help directly (which I expected),
but also couldn't pass me on to someone who could.