Re: [ARMini-support] Plusnet authentification
- From: John Gillard <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 09:48:13 GMT
In message <549fba7cc2alan.dawes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Alan P Dawes <alan.dawes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For what it is worth. I've been told that plusnet, talk talk, BT etc
> initially use the IP address it has allocated to the router to
> authenticate email access and if this is not recognised then requires user
> name / password (or inmsome cases both). If John's router retains a log of
> all the events and he finds that just before he had the problem it was
> disconnected eg due to work at the "exchange" it is very likely that he
> would have been issued a different IP address when reconnected. If that
> was in a new range of addresses allocated to Plusnet it may not have yet
> been registered with their email servers and thus gave "authentification
> invalid". I first came across a similar problem with BT's news server
> (Giganews not now included with BT) which only authenticated by IP address
> where the only way around it was to turn off the router and then reconnect
> which resulted in a different IP address being allocated which hopefully
> was in the range of addresses registered with the news server.
Thanks Alan, that is almost certainly what happened.
John Gillard
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