Netburner email problem

Capn_Dave

I am trying to send and email from my netburner.

I have a gmail account and have set Nb_varEV to smpt.gmail.com· along with valid entries· in the email address and password fields but always get the follwing error

DNS lookup of "smtp.gmail.com" FAILED
See Status Register variable for success (11) or failure (01)
the status register is always 07.

I have tried may variations of···smtp.gmail.com with www and http etc to no avail.

the other netburner features seem to work,·· FTP, TELNET, WEBPAGES

ANy ideas would be appreaciated.

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LoopyByteloose

Do you have a router/gateway involved? Are you using FTP, TELNET, and WEBPAGES locally, but only now trying to reach the outside world?

Shifting to an outside mail server requires you to somehow and somewhere be logged in. Depending both on your existing LAN and ISP service, there are a lot of different senarios. Do you first require a PPPoE login or not?

The Netburner isn't a Parallax product, so you aren't going to get specific help with it here.

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Post Edited (Kramer) : 5/11/2008 7:59:45 AM GMT

Franklin

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287
or
http://lifehacker.com/software/email-apps/how-to-use-gmail-as-your-smtp-server-111166.php

might be of help.

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- Stephen

MSDTech

Actually, the problem is in your network setup on the PINK. It doesn't have the DNS set to a server it can reach that can resolve the smtp.gmail.com domain's mx record. You can test this by unpluging the PINK and plugging in a computer with exactly the same network parameters you loaded into the PINK, especially the DNS and gateway settings.
Open a command prompt on the computer and type in the following:
NSLOOKUP.
Once the program is running and you see the ">" prompt, type in:
set type=mx
smtp.gmail.com
The final screen will look something like the following, depending on the routers and firewalls between you and the DNS server:

C:\WINDOWS>nslookup
DNS request timed out.
··· timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.1: Timed out
DNS request timed out.
··· timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.150: Timed out
*** Default servers are not available
Default Server:· UnKnown
Address:· 192.168.1.1
> set type=mx
> smtp.gmail.com
Server:· UnKnown
Address:· 192.168.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
smtp.gmail.com· internet address = 72.14.205.109
> exit
C:\WINDOWS>

If you don't get back the address of gmail, it may vary from the one above due to multiple servers servicing gmail, then your problem is the DNS entry in the PINK. You will need to get with whoever manages your network to get a valid DNS.

Capn_Dave

Right, this is the first time trying to get to the outside world.
I am working on getting the webpages to be seen from outside using port forwarding, but no sucess yet.

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LoopyByteloose

You really have to understand that there are additional layers protocol involved and much is dependent of how your LAN prefers to implement security. So without a detailed description of your network and how it reaches the outside world, one cannot really help you.

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Do you want a quickly operational black box solution or the knowledge included therein?······

···················· Tropically,····· G. Herzog [noparse][[/noparse]·黃鶴 ]·in Taiwan