On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:21:22 EDT, Stan Horwitz said: > # telnet netscape.com 25 > Trying 64.12.37.146... > telnet: connect to address 64.12.37.146: Connection timed out > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out MX entries. % dig netscape.com a netscape.com. 900 IN A 64.12.37.146 netscape.com. 900 IN A 64.12.180.19 % dig netscape.com mx netscape.com. 3600 IN MX 10 mail.netscape.everyone.net % dig mail.netscape.everyone.net a mail.netscape.everyone.net. 885 IN A 216.200.145.10 The address you tried isn't listening on port 25. I'm presuming that the server at everyone.net is in fact listening on 25.