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Subject: Testing Routes (Pinging Gateways)
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 18:10:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 18:10:19 1984
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From: Ron Tencati 


If I try to open a Telnet connection, and get "Network Unreachable", I am 
assuming my route table is messed up, or missing a route.  If on the other 
hand, I get "Connect: Connection Timed Out"  *every time* I try to open the
connection (for weeks), what should I assume, and how can I fix it?

See, my problems stem from some of our 300 users trying to send netmail. They 
don't want excuses, they want to send netmail...  My mailer says it can't get
the message through. I need to change things so that it can. One example is
the host RICE.  They are up, but my connections time-out every time we try to
send mail.  I seem to be able to send to person%rice@csnet-relay, but the 
majority of our users just send mail to @rice, so it sits there for days until
I manually bounce it back to them.

All I wanted to do was determine if my packets were getting there (and also 
other sites) so I could localize the problem.

					Ron
                           (not to be confused with -Ron)
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