Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Testing Routes (Pinging Gateways) Message-ID: <2632@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 18:10:19 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.2632 Posted: Wed Oct 17 18:10:19 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 04:49:31 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 22 From: Ron TencatiIf 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) ------