[plug] pppd

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, russ wrote:

> telnet failed: Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> What does this mean?

Either there is a firewall blocking access, they've mucked up their
hosts.allow entries, or they are no longer running a mailserver on that
machine.

(Though if it was the latter you really should be seeing "Connection
refused" rather than "Connection closed" which implies there _is_
something listening on that port, but it decided to close prematurely)

Could also be they have inetd listen to that port, and inetd.conf
configured to run /usr/sbin/in.pop3d (or something) and that file no
longer exists.

Either way, talk to your ISP :)

 - Matt