Port 110 re-visited.

[Guest]

Greetings
Many thanks to Marc Reynolds (MSFT) for your response to an earlier post, however,
am still floundering. I did not know if replying to my original post would get any response.

I apologize for my lack of knowledge in the proper protcols for these news groups

A little background: At approx 4:00 PM I reply to several e-mail messages everything is working fine

I go on to other stuff. At 4:30 a coworker says he can't connect to the internet. I find that I can't either. It took a while to diagnose that the router had gone south we lost connectivity with all of the lights were blinking normally. (the router has seen better times)

The procedure I followed was to isolate the components and found that the linksys indeed had quit working properly. To get connectivity back I simply ran a cat5 cable from the cable modem directly to the hub (bypassing the router) and rebooted the machines. The machines all use a dynamic lookup. As soon as the machines came up we were able to browse the internet using the standard browsers IE and Opera (that I use

It was a few minutes later that a co-worker said that he could not send any mail. I thought wow, I just sent several messages a few moments before the router fiasco. So I thought that his configuration might be bad so I first tried to send a mail message and I the following error message from outlook after pressing Send/Receive

Unable to connect to the server
(Account:'(e-mail address removed)', SMTP Server
smtp1.and1.com, Error Number 0x800ccc0e)

Using the help I found the Error cod
0x800CCC0E FAILED_TO_CONNECT Cannot connect to server
Some more research led me to the following in another area of hel
WORKAROUN
To work around this behavior, make ports 110 and 25 available. Ports 110 and 25 are available by default when the Exchange Server services start. The ports 110 for POP3, 119 for Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), and 143 for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) are automatically opened and made available on the Exchange Server computer when the Information Store service starts. Port 25 is automatically made available when the Internet Mail Service starts. If these services do not start, then the ports are not available. … (stuff deleted) then
Proto Local Address Foreign Address Stat
TCP 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENIN
TCP 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENIN

Problem is I don't know how to make port 110 available

None of the settings were changed in either of my mail accounts (Outlook,Opera) they both stopped working with regard to SEND when I lost the router and went with just using the hub. Prior to the linksys router going south the mail was working perfectly. I was able to send/receive from both Outlook and the mail functionality of Opera 7.23 one of my browsers. All I did was change some physical wiring and poof I can receive mail but can't send it anymore. Since I did not make any changes to the settings in either mail account I don't understand what I can change in my outlook and opera settings to tell the port to listen since the port (I'm assuming on the router had was listening on port 110) was listening prior to the linksys router going bad.

My IP address has changed also. It used to be the (standard IP before firewall address) that starts wit
198. so on. Now the IP starts with 68.

I hope that explains the situation a little better

Thanks again
R
PS here's a partial list of netstat -an on my machine (25 is there but 110 is not there like the example above.

Active Connection

Proto Local Address Foreign Address
Stat
TCP 0.0.0.0:7 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENIN
TCP 0.0.0.0:9 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENIN
TCP 0.0.0.0:13 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENIN
TCP 0.0.0.0:17 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENIN
TCP 0.0.0.0:19 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENIN
TCP 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENIN
TCP 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENIN
TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

But it seems to me that there should be some utility that allows you to view what ports are there, what ports are LISTENING, or Enabled, etc and then individually be able to set them to what you want.

 

[BobC]

Greetings, Many thanks to Marc Reynolds (MSFT) for your response to an
earlier post, however, I am still floundering. I did not know if
replying to my original post would get any response.

I apologize for my lack of knowledge in the proper protcols for these
news groups.

A little background: At approx 4:00 PM I reply to several e-mail
messages everything is working fine.

I go on to other stuff. At 4:30 a coworker says he can't connect to the
internet. I find that I can't either. It took a while to diagnose that
the router had gone south we lost connectivity with all of the lights
were blinking normally. (the router has seen better times)

The procedure I followed was to isolate the components and found that
the linksys indeed had quit working properly. To get connectivity back I
simply ran a cat5 cable from the cable modem directly to the hub
(bypassing the router) and rebooted the machines. The machines all use a
dynamic lookup. As soon as the machines came up we were able to browse
the internet using the standard browsers IE and Opera (that I use)

You can not just replace a router with a hub. Your ISP likely only gives
you one ip address. So whichever of the computers you boot first will get
that address and the other one will not get on the Internet. Replace the
hub with a new router.

 

[Guest]

i may be as lost as u are.... Ur router had a dhcp
service on it that assigned ip addresses... hence the
change in ip's....

-----Original Message-----
Greetings,
Many thanks to Marc Reynolds (MSFT) for your response to an earlier post, however, I
am still floundering. I did not know if replying to my

original post would get any response.

I apologize for my lack of knowledge in the proper

protcols for these news groups.

A little background: At approx 4:00 PM I reply to

several e-mail messages everything is working fine.

I go on to other stuff. At 4:30 a coworker says he can't

connect to the internet. I find that I can't either. It
took a while to diagnose that the router had gone south we
lost connectivity with all of the lights were blinking
normally. (the router has seen better times)

The procedure I followed was to isolate the components

and found that the linksys indeed had quit working
properly. To get connectivity back I simply ran a cat5
cable from the cable modem directly to the hub (bypassing
the router) and rebooted the machines. The machines all
use a dynamic lookup. As soon as the machines came up we
were able to browse the internet using the standard
browsers IE and Opera (that I use)

It was a few minutes later that a co-worker said that he

could not send any mail. I thought wow, I just sent
several messages a few moments before the router fiasco.
So I thought that his configuration might be bad so I
first tried to send a mail message and I the following
error message from outlook after pressing Send/Receive:

Unable to connect to the server.
(Account:'(e-mail address removed)', SMTP Server:
smtp1.and1.com, Error Number 0x800ccc0e).


Using the help I found the Error code
0x800CCC0E FAILED_TO_CONNECT Cannot connect to server.
Some more research led me to the following in another area of help
WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, make ports 110 and 25

available. Ports 110 and 25 are available by default when
the Exchange Server services start. The ports 110 for
POP3, 119 for Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), and
143 for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) are
automatically opened and made available on the Exchange
Server computer when the Information Store service starts.
Port 25 is automatically made available when the Internet
Mail Service starts. If these services do not start, then
the ports are not available. â?¦ (stuff deleted) then

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

Problem is I don't know how to make port 110 available3

None of the settings were changed in either of my mail

accounts (Outlook,Opera) they both stopped working with
regard to SEND when I lost the router and went with just
using the hub. Prior to the linksys router going south the
mail was working perfectly. I was able to send/receive
from both Outlook and the mail functionality of Opera 7.23
one of my browsers. All I did was change some physical
wiring and poof I can receive mail but can't send it
anymore. Since I did not make any changes to the settings
in either mail account I don't understand what I can
change in my outlook and opera settings to tell the port
to listen since the port (I'm assuming on the router had
was listening on port 110) was listening prior to the
linksys router going bad.

My IP address has changed also. It used to be the

(standard IP before firewall address) that starts with

198. so on. Now the IP starts with 68.

I hope that explains the situation a little better.

Thanks again.
RJ
PS here's a partial list of netstat -an on my machine (25

is there but 110 is not there like the example above.)

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address
State
TCP 0.0.0.0:7 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:9 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:13 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:17 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:19 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

But it seems to me that there should be some utility that

allows you to view what ports are there, what ports are
LISTENING, or Enabled, etc and then individually be able
to set them to what you want.