[ale] Internet connectivity question

[Jim Popovitch]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 17:50 -0600, Jack Schneider wrote:
> > 
> Just a test.
> time telnet mail.dmares.com 25
> Trying 209.150.157.211...
> Connected to mail.dmares.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 plus42.host4u.net ESMTP Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:35:38 -0600
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> real    7m50.918s
> user    0m0.020s
> sys     0m0.004s
> 
> After a 90,000 mile trip..
> tn -->Satellite --> NY-->ALE+
> 
> 8-)
> 
> Jack

I'm not sure if you are being facetious about the timing or humorous
about the distance, however the OP showed their timing using a
"quit" (presumably manually entered immediately after the successful
connect).

-Jim P.