I had a clever train of thought today, a good train of thought that lent itself to the witty writing of, something that made me think 'hey I need to write this down, if not for anyone else then at least so I can say 'hey me, you know you think some clever and witty things sometimes, well done''. However I was rudely derailed from this clever and witty train of thought by the large moose on the line that was the internet in work failing in a spectacularly unique way. Now let me get this straight, normally I'm all in favour of running over mooses, after all tons of huge speeding metal versus flesh and fur and bone isn't much of a contest, but this moose was very resilient to even the strongest and most determined trains of thought my mind could muster. No matter how hard I tried to push this moose out of the way (or under the wheels) it just stood there and looked stupid, or possibly at me stupid. So I gave up, decided to get off the train and do whatever had to be done to move the moose. Someone once said something about pushing analogies too far and then breaking them, but the way I see it is what's life without breaking things? So with that analogy pushed far beyond the boundaries of sense and decency I'll get back to the problem.
Port 25 doesn't seem to want work. This doesn't sound like much, but port 25 has special privileges, in that port 25 is the all hallowed SMTP port. If it throws a hissy fit, no e-mail gets sent. Port 25 breaking is a BAD THING. Port 25 on the network server breaking though, is even worse. If regular port 25 thinks it's something special, then server port 25 has got so much arrogance oozing out of it that's on a level with the most blingest of hip-hop stars. If server port 25 throws a hissy fit, everyone knows. Port 25 sulks and so whille e-mail comes in, nothing goes out. And as well all know, it's better to give than to recieve, so as we're pretty much stuffed for giving and we're only recieving, we're pretty much screwed for any good stuff today. So there goes me fixing it and the chance of anything productive done today.
(8) Hands Of Time - Groove Armada
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No, our one in the office. Turns out it was a technical glitch with our own internet mail server which was only throwing a wobbly some of the time, thus making the problem a tad hard to track. Still, all resolved now.
I fail to see how port 25 would have been at fault anyways.... How could you blame a port ? Why not blame SMTP or the mail server ? Ehh ... ?
(My god this is the first time ive been online in ages.../mental note pick uni with internet access within halls of res)
I thought my webserver and the office webserver where on different servers, so I figured that if I couldn't ping both mail.myserver.co.uk and mail.theirserver.co.uk on port 25 then something was up with port 25. Little did I realise we where both on the same server. Oops.
Ping is ICMP, it doesnt use ports. Back to school boi!!
This is why I should never fix networks. I just used so default apple port scanning thing, which I presumed was pinging stuff. But obviously I know nothing. ah well. You learn.
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So what have you been messing with now? And which network server is it? An ISP's?