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|    Jeff Smith to Daryl Stout    |
|    NO ONE CAN CONNECT    |
|    25 Jan 16 05:45:38    |
      Hello Daryl.              23 Jan 16 12:58, you wrote to all:               DS> I have had this problem for several years, and have no idea what is        DS> going on.               DS> While I can connect to other nodes via Internet Rex, they can NOT        DS> connect to my system.              <...>               DS> Any assistance would be appreciated.              Well,if I do a ping and Traceroute of wx1der.dyndns.org which is the FQDN       associated with       1:19/33 I get the following:              Pinging wx1der.dyndns.org [71.238.220.235] with 32 bytes of data:       Request timed out.       Request timed out.       Request timed out.       Request timed out.       Ping statistics for 71.238.220.235:       Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),              A trace route to wx1der.dyndns.org [71.238.220.235] over a maximum of 30 hops:               1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 65.103.38.174        2 6 ms 7 ms 10 ms stpl-dsl-gw12.stpl.qwest.net [207.109.2.12]        3 7 ms 14 ms 11 ms stpl-agw1.inet.qwest.net [207.109.3.89]        4 11 ms 11 ms * chp-edge-01.inet.qwest.net [67.14.38.90]        5 17 ms 11 ms 12 ms 216.207.8.190        6 31 ms 30 ms 29 ms hu-0-2-0-7-cr02.350ecermak.il.ib       ne.comcast.net [68.86.83.161]        7 11 ms 15 ms 14 ms be-10405-cr02.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net       [68.86.87.185]        8 48 ms 48 ms 32 ms be-10414-cr02.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net       [68.86.86.246]        9 28 ms 30 ms 28 ms be-7922-ar03.littlerock.ar.lrock.comcast.net       [68.86.90.162]        10 36 ms 35 ms 30 ms te-8-1-ur01.sshackleford.ar.lrock.comcast.net       [68.87.223.166]        11 33 ms 32 ms 33 ms te-1-0-0-ten01.sshackleford.ar.l       ock.comcast.net [68.85.132.138]        12 * * * Request timed out.        13 * * * Request timed out.       <...>        28 * * * Request timed out.        29 * * * Request timed out.        30 * * * Request timed out.              Trace complete.              So... I suspect that the connection problem isn't related to Irex                     Jeff              --- GoldED+/W32-MINGW 1.1.5-b20070503        * Origin: Region 14 IP Server - ftn.region14.org (1:14/5)    |
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