[Coco] OT: ISP SOS
Frank Pittel
fwp at deepthought.com
Thu Jul 26 01:19:00 EDT 2007
I hate to take the role of topic cop but this really has absolutely
nothing to do with the coco and is way off topic. There are a lot of
newsgroups, websites, mailing lists, etc where this is on topic.
Please take this someplace where it's on topic.
Frank
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:18:37PM -0700, kevdig at hypersurf.com wrote:
> I can't send outgoing mail. Mozilla 1.8 gives an SMTP connection refused
> error (This was sent using one of those web mail things). My ISP suggested
> I try:
>
> telnet smtpauth.hypersurf.com 25
>
> This gives:
>
> telnet: connect to address 209.237.0.12: Network is unreachable
>
> I can ping it. I am on dialup and both systems I tried are running Linux
> 2.4.31 (PowerMac 8600 and Toshiba laptop). Other than nat and masquerade
> there are no iptable rules/chains installed that I know of.
>
> More disturbing, when I added a record <file> option to pppd and did:
>
> telnet smtpauth.hypersurf.com
>
> and then disconnected I saw some strange content from pppdump <file>:
>
> rcvd "\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\f8\91{Z\00\ff\d0
> \11\a9\b2\00\c0O\b6\e6\fc\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00
> \00\00\00\00\00\01\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\ff\ff\ff\ff\18\01\00\00
> \00\00\0a\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\0a\00\00\00SYSTEM"
> rcvd "\00\00\00\00\00\00#\00\00\00\00\00\00\00#\00\00\00ALERT\00\00\00\00\00
> \00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00
> \00\00\00\c2\00\00\00\00\00\00\00\c2\00\00\00 STOP! IMMEDIATE ATTEN
> TI"
> rcvd "ON REQUIRED\0a\0a Windows has found "
> time 0.1s
> rcvd "CRITICAL SYSTEM ERRORS.\0a\0a Download Registry Clean"
> rcvd "er from: www.key32.com\0a\0aFAILURE TO ACT NOW MAY LEAD TO DATA LOSS AN
> D CORRUPTION!\0a\0a\00\00\00\00\00\00\f7\a4~"
>
> Any suggestions welcome. My ISP thinks my systems are screwed up?
>
> kevin
>
>
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