Re: [cobalt-users] Strange email problem...

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Chip wrote:

> I keep coming across these strange problems.   I have a Raq 3 with 
> relatively low activity. I just added a user on one of the virtual domains. 
> There are other  users with working POP and SMTP on the same domain... 
> but  this particular user, when Eudora attempts to check mail, generates 
> the error "Could not connect to crcorp.net. Cause: Host is unreachable (10065)

I guess the obvious question would be, do you see any evidence they
actually connected in the logs? if not then it's not your fault -)

SMTP blocking is very common, haven't seen pop blocked much tho...

I'm assuming they aren't using AOL for net access here...more worms

The same customer can hit your web server at the same time this happens?
> 
> Has anyone else run across this sort of weirdness?

I've also had truely strange problems with some customers using cable
modems that run NAT into translated local IP addresses on the customers
endpoint (eg customer has an ip like 10.0.123.1) For some reason certain
types of transfers seem to vanish, i have 2 customers using this type of
thing and have something like a 50% failure rate on pop connections ...
(along with lots of timeouts, something that doesn't impress me much ;)

gsh