----- Original Message -----
From: "Vic" <lug@???>
To: <hampshire@???>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] pop.ntlworld.com
>> Can I just confirm that a few of you can ping pop.ntlworld.com with no
>> trouble?
>
> [vic@goliath ~]$ ping -c 1 pop.ntlworld.com
> PING pop.ntlworld.com (81.103.221.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from pop.ispmail.ntl.com (81.103.221.14): icmp_seq=0 ttl=120
> time=24.1 ms
>
> --- pop.ntlworld.com ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 24.154/24.154/24.154/0.000 ms, pipe 2
> [vic@goliath ~]$ telnet pop.ntlworld.com 110
> Trying 81.103.221.14...
> Connected to pop.ntlworld.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK POP3 server ready
> quit
> +OK ? POP3 server signing off.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Vic.
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Brilliant - thanks Vic and Lisi.
Orange support continue to deny there's a problem with their connectivity.
The extremely polite but clueless agent told me "he didn't have the
authority to ping pop.ntlworld.com" - unbelievable!
Cheers
Rob
