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SME6 cannot connect to mail.yahoo.com and symantec sites!?

Offline lightman

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SME6 cannot connect to mail.yahoo.com and symantec sites!?
« on: December 13, 2004, 02:47:44 PM »
Hi
I search through the list but found nothing like this so I'll post a new thread.

I installed a fresh 6.0.1 in a very small box
everything worked fine however i cannot connect
to mail.yahoo.com

Only this place, all other yahoo and all other sites
I can think about worked great.

If I disconnect the box and connect the cablemodem directly to my pc, it works, but when I'm inside the
SME 6 box, don't.

I think that It got to be something wrong with the Squid cache maybe, but I'm not sure.

Any ideas?

I even tested bittorrent through out the box and it worked really fast, the only problem seems to be the name resolution.

my hardware is a pentium 200mmx with 64mb ram, HD 4G, nic wan: RTL8029, nic lan: RTL8139D, using cable modem as ISP.

EDIT: I just find out that I cannot connect to any of the symantec sites as well, same problem as yahoo.com, what is going on with this box?  :-o

I'll try a fresh install of a older version to see if the problem remains.

Any help or suggestions would be very appreciated
thanks a lot
c-u
lightman

guest22

SME6 cannot connect to mail.yahoo.com and symantec sites!?
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2004, 12:54:19 AM »
What is the name of your SME Server domain and your server name?

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SME6 cannot connect to mail.yahoo.com and symantec sites!?
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2004, 06:21:22 PM »
Hi, Thanks for reply.

I had: router as a servername and lightman.org as domain

but after your question i check if lightman.org exist on the internet and it did, so i changed to lightmannet.org that doesn't exist.

However the problem remains.
If i load www.yahoo.com the page loads but the buttoms on top and most of the pictures, don't.

if i try to open mail.yahoo.com it tries to download something and then stall.

after a while, I get the page (2 to 3 minutes later) but none of the images load, however, the text part
of the page loads.

I tried using IE6, and Firefox 1.0 and also tried to open it from my other machine (Red hat 9, using firefox 1.0) and get the same results.

doing a:
host www.yahoo.com, mail.yahoo.com and
us.ard.yahoo.com it gives me the proper IP's
but connection to most of the us.ard.yahoo.com
is impossible.

I have 2 ISP connections:
A- Cable modem 1M/128
B- ADSL 1M/128

A is connected to the SME 6.0.1 that has this
problem of mail.yahoo.com

B is connected to a SME 5.5 that works perfectly
and I can connect without problem to all sites.

The networks are not interconnected at all, there
are 2 separate networks (for high availability
purposes).

If I connect my PC directly to the cablemodem
I can connect perfectly to mail.yahoo.com

I even tried to flush the squid cache, of the
SME 6, just in case, but no effect.

Perhaps the problem is there, but my knowledge
is limited :(.

any ideas?.
thanks a lot!
lightman

pen25

SME6 cannot connect to mail.yahoo.com and symantec sites!?
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2004, 05:26:17 AM »
you have a problem with dns lookup. are you trying to use tinydns built in to the server? check to make sure you have your name servr being your providers. also you can use a secondary 4.2.2.1 as a backup its a verizon lookup

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SME6 cannot connect to mail.yahoo.com and symantec sites!?
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2004, 04:41:44 AM »
Hi, thanks for reply.

Already tested this, and the dns works ok,
I can get the names and resolve everything, the
problem is that I cannot connect, the effect that
i see, is like the server is not responding, but
the name resolution works perfectly.

I can even ping all those hosts.

I have a similar problem now with hotmail. when I try to read mail, after enter the password the browser says DONE and don't load.

That effect is with the explorer 6

If I use firefox, it works.
if I connect the CABLE directly to the client machine it works too, but the combination Hotmail -> SME -> IE6 dont work, that's is really pretty extrange.

I don't know what else to do.... :(
I flush the squid cache, but didnt solve the
problem.

as before, I can resolve hostnames, but when
i try to connect via HTTP is like the server is
not responding.
c-u
lightman

cc_skavenger

SME6 cannot connect to mail.yahoo.com and symantec sites!?
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2004, 05:02:56 AM »
see this thread on the hotmail issue.  These site problems could be related to this:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=25305.0


check what version of squid you are using (rpm -qa | grep squid) and follow the appropriate fix.


HTH

pen25

SME6 cannot connect to mail.yahoo.com and symantec sites!?
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2004, 06:10:12 AM »
if the problem is just with IE try doing a refresh if that doesnt do it do a shift><esc> and press the refresh button. this forces a new download. if that doesnt work clear your cache. might be a problem with squid. but doubtful since you said bypassing the server is the same thing

Offline kruhm

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check mtu settings
« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2005, 02:59:25 PM »
Check your mtu settings on your router. I've found that if the mtu is at 1500, sometimes mail.yahoo.com (as well as other sites) doesn't work. Change it to 1492.

thnxs,
dak