[79103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sympatico / Nexxia (as577) smtp issues ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Danielli)
Wed Mar 30 19:19:40 2005
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:18:21 -0500
From: Richard Danielli <richard.danielli@esubnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050330190507.043884a0@64.7.153.2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I saw this earlier today ...
hope it helps to know you're not alone
-rd-
Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>
> Anyone know whats up with Sympatico / Bell's mail servers ? My
> customers are asking me why their mail is not getting there nor mail
> from sympatico is not getting to us. Most mail does not seem to be
> going through although network connectivity seems fine. I tried from 2
> other networks and the issue seems to be the same.
>
> > host -tmx sympatico.ca
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip6.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip7.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip8.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip1.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip2.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip3.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip4.bellnexxia.net.
> sympatico.ca mail is handled by 5 toip5.bellnexxia.net.
> >
>
> > telnet toip6.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.174...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > telnet toip1.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.84...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > telnet toip2.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.85...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > telnet toip3.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.86...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > telnet toip4.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.87...
> Connected to toip4.bellnexxia.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 421 #4.4.5 Too many connections to this host.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> > telnet toip5.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.88...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
> > telnet toip6.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.174...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> > telnet toip7.bellnexxia.net smtp
> Trying 209.226.175.175...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400
> Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net
> Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net
> Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike
>
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Richard Danielli
President, eSubnet
(416) 203-5253
www.eSubnet.com
