I have two ISPs: Demon and Freeserve. In the last week it has become almost impossible to send out mail (I'm sending this from a different machine which seems to work). It's been slow at times in the past but this is ridiculous.
I'm using Slink with smail. I've RTFMd till I'm dizzy and have fiddled with /etc/resolv.conf for hours; sometimes it seems to work perfectly but then it blocks again for hours and hours. What I find really odd is that it can start and stop working without my having changed anything. Messages in /var/spool/smail show "server unreachable"; "connection refused". Receiving mail, reading news, accessing websites are all fine. Has anyone experienced anything like this? Should I install qmail or exim perhaps? Here is my /etc/resolv.conf in case this sheds any light. #demon nameservers nameserver 158.152.1.58 nameserver 158.152.1.43 #freeserve nameservers nameserver 195.92.193.94 nameserver 195.92.193.95 nameserver 195.92.193.212 nameserver 195.92.193.210 Can anyone suggest what to try next? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux - Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
