On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:16 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:07:32 -0600 > Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 14:50 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > > This makes no sense to me. If someone sending an e-mail to me gets > > > the mail bounced back to them with a server time out error from the > > > ISP, > > > how could my router affect that? The router in question is a Linksys > > > e3000. I called them too but they won't talk to me with sending them > > > $s. > > > > Are you running your own mailserver? If not, and your email is being > > handled by the ISP's mailserver and you merely run a mail client of > > some kind to read your email, then what you have on your end has > > nothing to do with the ISP's mailserver at all. > > No, I'm just running the claws-mail client on this machine and my wife > is running zimbra on her Windows 7 laptop. We've both had e-mails not > arrive. > I'm struggling to explain why I appear to never have problems > when the router is taken out of the equation. How can I prove to my ISP > that it is their problem? > > Steve On my router it is possible to configure things so the DHCP server is the ISP's server instead of your router acting as the DHCP server . If that is happening to you that might cause the problem you see, Make sure your local lan addresses are being assigned by your router not the ISPs server, -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
