Need help

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/03/2012 10:30 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> On 10/02/2012 07:15:38 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
>> I need some help in trying to get to the source of this problem. This 
>> the readout of the command traceroute risingstarmbc.com. I am unable
>> to 
>> connect to this email address and I don't know how to resolve it.
> [snip]
>
> First, what _exactly_is the symptom. All the traceroute shows is how to 
> get to the site. Connecting with a browser proves that the site exists. 
> Neither has any necessary connection with your problem.

FWIW, I rarely use "traceroute" these days since many routers now filter ICMP messages.  Since the site being talked about is risingstarmbc.com and since the word "email" was used in the OP's message and since host returns....

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ host risingstarmbc.com
risingstarmbc.com has address 204.10.137.200
risingstarmbc.com mail is handled by 20 mx11.hostrack.net.
risingstarmbc.com mail is handled by 20 mx12.hostrack.net.risingstarmbc.com.
risingstarmbc.com mail is handled by 20 mx13.hostrack.net.
risingstarmbc.com mail is handled by 30 risingstarmbc.com.

I use tcptraceroute to check and get....

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ sudo tcptraceroute -n mx13.hostrack.net 25
traceroute to mx13.hostrack.net (204.10.142.245), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  211.75.128.254  17.028 ms  17.153 ms  18.391 ms
 2  168.95.229.6  17.571 ms  18.305 ms  18.261 ms
 3  220.128.1.158  21.326 ms  22.501 ms 220.128.4.102  22.662 ms
 4  220.128.7.153  71.588 ms 220.128.7.21  18.187 ms 220.128.7.153  71.947 ms
 5  220.128.30.253  18.633 ms 220.128.6.81  18.601 ms 220.128.6.85  18.559 ms
 6  211.72.108.205  147.272 ms  145.270 ms 211.72.108.193  147.468 ms
 7  12.250.31.5  158.631 ms  160.829 ms  160.941 ms
 8  12.122.137.182  165.511 ms  166.439 ms  166.166 ms
 9  12.122.30.121  166.647 ms  165.911 ms  164.458 ms
10  12.123.155.5  160.948 ms  162.950 ms  161.006 ms
11  12.88.115.134  163.689 ms  164.018 ms  162.562 ms
12  204.10.142.245 <syn,ack>  163.922 ms  165.778 ms  165.622 ms

Same is true for all the MX hosts as well as (using the appropriate ports) for pop.risingstarmbc.com and imap.risingstarmbc.com.

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