Please help me with this strange problem. Can't telnet or check email.

[bo_bear]

Please help me out here. Ever since I got my new DSL from pacbell, I haven't been able to check my school email or telnet to the school server. I had pacbell DSL at another location before and everything worked fine. Whenever I tried to check my school email account through Outlook, I get a timeout error. When I tried to telnet to the mail server, it gives me the following error:

"The connection from your host has been refused because the
nameserver could not determine its hostname. Please check with your
network administrator to make sure that your system has been properly
registered with the InterNIC and that your local nameserver has both
"A" and "PTR" records for your host."

I know it's not the server problem because I can access my school pop mail account through Yahoo! Mail or something. And I can telnet the server just fine if I use a 56k modem dialup. So there must be something about my DSL connection. Does anyone have any idea? Is it my problem or something with PacBell?

Thanks!

 

[nuttervm]

i like the spirit behind your sig.

i have no idea what the answer to your question is tho 🙂

 

[LordOfAll]

When you set up the mail pop3 server or telnet are you using names or the actual IP #'s? Try the IP #'s and if it works that way you have a DNS problem.

 

[bo_bear]

I'm using the name of the mail server. I don't know the IP of the actual server though. How do I find out?

Edit: Okay, I found out the IP address by pinging the mail server. I telnet to the server by using the IP address, but I still get the same error message. Any other ideas? Please!

 

[Ladi]

Sounds like your reverse DNS isn't working quite yet. Give it a few days to propagate since you've said this is a new connection. Otherwise, it's time to call up pacbell and complain.

~Ladi