[wellylug] Internet email blocked

[Jethro Carr]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 17:13 +1300, Jeff Hunt wrote:
> At work I am unable to find the server on any internet email service
> that I have tried (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, paradise). I used to be able
> to do this on my Ubuntu Gutsy setup on a different machine and a staff
> machine using Ubuntu is ok, but when I started using a Dell tower
> machine with identical configuration to my old IBM (as far as I know)
> I lost internet email but nothing else. My work email and internet are
> fine. 
> My Microsoft work support team are puzzled and can't help.
> Does anyone know what strange magic an internet email system can
> produce to stop a particular machine?
> The work site protocols do not block it and as far as I know I have
> all systems on that might stop me in my computer. 
> I cannot ping these sites.
> It sounds to me like a rights and access issue, but what rights and
> access?


hi Jeff,

I don't fully understand what you are trying to say above - do you mean
that you are unable to access some websites such as hotmail, yahoo, etc
from your work computer?

Most likely cause is filtering software - are you 100% sure that your
employer does not have filtering enabled? - this could either be done on
the network gateway or even on the computer itself.

Have you tried using another staff member's computer?

You say that you are not able to ping the websites - have you done a
traceroute to see where the packets are being dropped?


-- 
Jethro Carr

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