Outlook Express error...(No socket error?)

[iamme]

The host 'mail.comcast.net' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'Comcast', Server: 'mail.comcast.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11004, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

This is the error message I keep getting. Anyone know what this means? I've been getting mail from my laptop wirelessly, for the passed month or so. I tried rebooting, deleting the account and adding it again, but nothing.....

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[Angrymarshmello]

Could possibly be comcast's mail server is down. I'm guessing that from the part where it says "blah could not be found". Can you ping the mail.comcast.net server to see if you get a response back?

 

[satori]

Assuming the "11004" error is a typical socket error, here's the entry for it:

WSANO_DATA (11004)
Valid name, no data record of requested type.
The requested name is valid and was found in the database, but it does not have the correct associated data being resolved for. The usual example for this is a host name-to-address translation attempt (using gethostbyname or WSAAsyncGetHostByName) which uses the DNS (Domain Name Server). An MX record is returned but no A record?indicating the host itself exists, but is not directly reachable.

I'm not a sysadmin, but it looks like there's an entry on your DNS server indicating that comcast can be used for email, but there's no "A record" in the DNS server showing what the IP address of that computer is.

 

[iamme]

I thought it was something else, because my desktop could access mail fine w/ Outlook 2000. But it seems something was fishy on Comcast's side. It fine now thanks