Unable to resolve the IP address. ( Qt 3.)

[joseph]

Can you connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com using telnet?

telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25

The server should respond with a smtp greeting, something like:
220 mx.google.com ESMTP

I get this

abc@abc:~> telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25
Trying 209.85.147.27...
telnet: connect to address 209.85.147.27: No route to host
Trying 209.85.147.114...
telnet: connect to address 209.85.147.114: No route to host

abc@abc:~> telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25
Trying 209.85.147.27...
telnet: connect to address 209.85.147.27: No route to host
Trying 209.85.147.114...
telnet: connect to address 209.85.147.114: No route to host

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[wysota]

In that case the problem is not in your application or Qt, but in your machine. It has its routing set up incorrectly. I suggest you contact your network administrator about it.

[joseph]

In that case the problem is not in your application or Qt, but in your machine. It has its routing set up incorrectly. I suggest you contact your network administrator about it.

Hi wysota,
I told about my problem to network admin. According to him, I cannot directly access the mailservers( like yahoo, gmail etc ) as this would be against security.
Actually, we dont have any access to mail domains. We can only use lotus notes to send and receive the mails. All other IDs (mails) are blocked. The network admin tells me I can only use 198.168.1.1 IP to send the mail from my workplace using lotus. I tried sending mails to my peers within our intranet using 198.168.1.1 and it succeeded. The mail was sent.

What is that I can do, without taking my network admin's help, to solve the above problem? or anything I can ask him to make my application work.

One more important thing is I have my peers working on .NET and they have implemented sending/receving mails. I had a discussion and as I understood, they too are using 198.168.1.1 as bypass address to send and receive the mails.

Thanks

[wysota]

Then why don't you use that address as well?

[joseph]

Then why don't you use that address as well?

OH, Got it...Thanks wysota... It was my network admins problem, fixed it and got it right.

Thanks wysota again....