Quick Answer PLEASE!

Penguin4x4 · Dec 2, 2002

Does anyone know if Southwestern Bell's POP and SMTP Servers are down???? My mom is trying to use her e-mail, and every time she press send, OE alerts that smtp.sbcglobal.net and/or pop.sbcglobal.net cannot be found. WTF?!?!!?!!?!?!!!!

Oni · Dec 2, 2002

They don't return ping requests. I'd say that they're down.

Penguin4x4 · Dec 2, 2002

Yeah, that's what I've been gettin as. This should explain why my FTP Clients haven't been able to connect...Argh!

Kingslayer · Dec 2, 2002

Always do a traceroute instead of a ping. ICMP (ping) responces can be turned off by most routers and your pings will time out even if they are up and online.

CharlesHF · Dec 2, 2002

I believe that some firewalls can kill traceroutes, also.

edit: But this is a good point--a traceroute will allow you to see exactly where the break in the link is.

Penguin4x4 · Dec 2, 2002

Is Tracroute like Pinging?

CharlesHF · Dec 2, 2002

It's a special kind of ping, where each router (hop) that the signal goes through sends back a message, saying what it is, it's IP address, how long it took to ping, etc.

Direct from my CCNA curriculum:

"trace:
Command that uses Time-To-Live (TTL) values to generate messages from each router used along the path. This is very powerful in its ability to locate failures in the path from the source to the destination."

I hope this answers your question.

mbentley · Dec 2, 2002

i did a neotrace of smtp.sbcglobal.net and came up with this:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mbentley/neotrace1.jpg

pop.sbcglobal.net came up with this:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mbentley/neotrace2.jpg

both die out at the same place in new york.

Penguin4x4 · Dec 2, 2002

Hmmmmmmm........seeems to die @ 152.63.23.217

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PING: transmit failed, error code 65

Damn Yankee's!!!

Yakbak · Dec 2, 2002

The whole internet was dying on me for the past 2 days...some router must have went down...

DDR-PIII · Dec 2, 2002

What can you expect ? they don't promise 24/7 - 365 do they ?

ronin1967 · Dec 2, 2002

even if your local mail server is down, you could try using the webbased email, with some of the large compaines that would work...

Penguin4x4 · Dec 2, 2002

DDR-PIII said:
What can you expect ? they don't promise 24/7 - 365 do they ?

Supossedly so, but my parents have no energy to to call em up,

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