Hi,
Some people may recall that I had posted the problem of Gmail not working with thunderbird on this list. It turns out that the problem is neither Gmail nor thunderbird. It's MTNL!!
Usually, whenever I used to ping some site, output was something like:
############################################ [/home/soumen] $ ping yahoo.com PING yahoo.com (66.94.234.13) 56(84) bytes of data. From 203.94.230.117 icmp_seq=0 Packet filtered From 203.94.230.117 icmp_seq=1 Packet filtered From 203.94.230.117 icmp_seq=2 Packet filtered From 203.94.230.117 icmp_seq=3 Packet filtered
--- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3039ms , pipe 2 [/home/soumen] $ ############################################
Yesterday to my surprise I could actually ping to various sites without the packets getting filtered (I did'nt capture the screen shot but the "Packet filtered" part was gone & I got some "ttl" & "time" values). On a hunch, I re-configured my Gmail account & it perfectly worked!!
Today it's again back to "Packet filtered" & Gmail again is not working :(
Is my assumption right that my MTNL dialup is to be blamed? If so, what I can do to get this fixed? I mean is it possible to actually explain this to somebody in MTNL & get results? Their helpline is forever busy & nobody responds to the e-mails (I tried those routes with another problem).
-- Soumen Dass [Registered Linux User # 272639 - Linux nova 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl i686]
Feeling amorous, she looked under the sheets and cried, "Oh, no, it's Microsoft!"