Pakets filtered & ping not working cannot be the reason for gmail pop not working, as if you are able to surf the net, are you able to check your mail's on gmail using the browser if yes then there is no issue with mtnl.
most isp do not allow ping responses , [ICMP] is disabled due to security reasons.
this is what i can understand, incase someone can explain this better or dispute this.
this has been my observation while working with tcp/ip, it is possible gmail also has turned ping responses off.
Vishnu
-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in]On Behalf Of Soumen Dass Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 11:06 AM To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] MTNL Mumbai and Gmail
Pankaj Dekate wrote:
Same case here too.But when i used to ping other sites i used to get packet filtered.But i was able to access those sites. SOmtimes my thunderbird works with POP for gmail ,sometimes
it doesn't
.But SMTP always works inspite of getting "packet filtered."
Exactly. No problem surfing. No problem sending mails. Just that ping doesn't work. And so doesn't Gmail.
I guess the interpretation of "Packet filtered" is that some incoming packets were not allowed. Which means that if Gmail is sending something like some packets for confirmation etc., that is not getting responded so thunderbird hangs at "Connecting to pop.gmail.com..."
Wow, the ping is working again (may be till this session lasts):
########################################################### [/home/soumen] $ ping yahoo.com PING yahoo.com (216.109.112.135) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=319 ms 64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=320 ms 64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=330 ms 64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=320 ms 64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=320 ms 64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=320 ms
--- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5052ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 319.760/321.739/330.138/3.786 ms, pipe 2 [/home/soumen] $ ###########################################################
It's quite sad that we are paying MTNL for a service which doesn't even let us access our mails consistently :(
Pankaj
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