How many people are experiencing yahoo SMTP email server connection problems?
I use the business service smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com and have been having connection problems for 2 weeks. Spoke with Yahoo support and they gave a reason 'DNS caching problems' at my service provider as the issue. However today when it stopped working again, I did a traceroute from the service provider and from our rackspace host and both systems could NOT connect to the yahoo SMTP servers. Traceroutes below.
[~]$ traceroute smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com
traceroute to any-smtp.bizmail.mail.fy4.b.yahoo.com (68.142.200.11), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
3 vlan901.edge3.dfw1.rackspace.com (72.3.128.19) 2.580 ms 2.562 ms 2.544 ms
4 bbr1.dfw1.rackspace.net (72.3.128.249) 3.344 ms 3.055 ms 2.764 ms
5 exchange-cust2.da1.equinix.net (206.223.118.2) 2.906 ms 2.958 ms 2.774 ms
6 ae2-p101.msr1.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.107) 198.397 ms ae2-p111.msr2.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.111) 4.034 ms ae1-p101.msr1.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.99) 3.669 ms
7 ten-9-1.bas1.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.29) 3.861 ms ten-9-1.bas2.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.31) 4.311 ms ten-8-1.bas1.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.25) 4.461 ms
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[~]$
C:\Program Files\Support Tools>tracert smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com
Tracing route to any-smtp.bizmail.mail.fy4.b.yahoo.com [206.190.48.12]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
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17 143 ms 160 ms 189 ms smtp1-f.biz.mail.vip.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.48.1
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Trace complete.
I use the business service smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com and have been having connection problems for 2 weeks. Spoke with Yahoo support and they gave a reason 'DNS caching problems' at my service provider as the issue. However today when it stopped working again, I did a traceroute from the service provider and from our rackspace host and both systems could NOT connect to the yahoo SMTP servers. Traceroutes below.
[~]$ traceroute smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com
traceroute to any-smtp.bizmail.mail.fy4.b.yahoo.com (68.142.200.11), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
3 vlan901.edge3.dfw1.rackspace.com (72.3.128.19) 2.580 ms 2.562 ms 2.544 ms
4 bbr1.dfw1.rackspace.net (72.3.128.249) 3.344 ms 3.055 ms 2.764 ms
5 exchange-cust2.da1.equinix.net (206.223.118.2) 2.906 ms 2.958 ms 2.774 ms
6 ae2-p101.msr1.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.107) 198.397 ms ae2-p111.msr2.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.111) 4.034 ms ae1-p101.msr1.mud.yahoo.com (216.115.104.99) 3.669 ms
7 ten-9-1.bas1.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.29) 3.861 ms ten-9-1.bas2.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.31) 4.311 ms ten-8-1.bas1.mud.yahoo.com (68.142.193.25) 4.461 ms
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[~]$
C:\Program Files\Support Tools>tracert smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com
Tracing route to any-smtp.bizmail.mail.fy4.b.yahoo.com [206.190.48.12]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
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15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 143 ms 160 ms 189 ms smtp1-f.biz.mail.vip.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.48.1
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Trace complete.