[ale] Internet connectivity question

[Paul Cartwright]

On Thu November 2 2006 12:07 pm, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> As a test I just did:
> time telnet dmares.com 25
> quit

well, I tried it from my PC to dmares.com and it never connected, I 
also tried mail.dmares.com.
I did connect to bellsouth ( my ISP ) in about 4 seconds:

>  time telnet mail.bellsouth.net 25
Trying 205.152.59.17...
Connected to mail.bellsouth.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ibm70aec.bellsouth.net ESMTP server ready Thu, 2 Nov 2006 
12:15:59 -0500
quit
221 ibm70aec.bellsouth.net ESMTP server closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

real    0m9.904s
user    0m0.016s
sys     0m0.000s


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Paul Cartwright
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