Re: [nznog] pop from xtra adsl

On 2/8/2005, "Gavin Legge" wrote:

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Grasping at straws and no disrespect intended but would blocking all outbound connections to port 110 be the kind of thing an ISP like say for example xtra would do?

On a side note, they do block ingress 110 to pop.xtra.co.nz from outside their network. But hey, its their network I guess *shrug*

Yes, it is.... I do find it interesting that one of the first things people think of is 'Oh, Xtra must be blocking all outbound POP3...' Its almost like every thing that Xtra does must be a conspiracy to annoy the very same end users they need to retain to succeed in business? To the man from DTS: Dare I ask, was Xtra's tech support team contacted re the problem? I imagine they can help you troubleshoot the problem, as they should certainly be able to run comparisons in realtime from other types of Xtra connection medium (similar routes) and if its something at their end, they'd need to address it as a fault. Good luck :) Mark. PS: If this seems slightly frustrated or sarcastic, I apologise. It seems theres a tendency to skip over the obvious 'lets try the helpdesk' and jump straight to NZNOG for issues that have a tenuous 'network operations' component at best. Xtra, like most NZ ISPs, have a competent support structure (Ok, in the case of some, you need to be persistent) who will help their client... as its in their best interest to _retain_ said client.)