[plug] pppd

[russ]

Thanks for that.

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Matt Kemner wrote:

> 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
> 
>