[ale] Internet connectivity question

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 12:07 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
> 
> We just moved our Internet connection to a T-1 from CBeyond last week.
> 
> So far it has been a good experience, but one of our people has a
> HTTP/FTP/SMTP/POP site he uses (dmares.com).  He tells me it is fast
> and responsive from his house but it has unusable from here since we
> moved to CBeyond.
> 
> >From here (via CBeyond):
> HTTP (port 80) access seems to be fine.
> 
> FTP (port 21) and SMTP (port 25) are very slow.
> 
> POP (port 109) seems to be non-functional.
> 
> As a test I just did:
> time telnet dmares.com 25
> quit
> 
> It took 1 min 25 seconds to complete, but it did complete.

>From Comcast in ATL:

root at blue:~# time telnet mail.dmares.com 25
Trying 209.150.157.211...
Connected to mail.dmares.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 plus42.host4u.net ESMTP Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:25:24 -0600
quit
221 2.0.0 plus42.host4u.net closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

real    0m14.417s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.008s


-Jim P.