RB> And the IP address at the moment is 89.247.237.247 - but that changes RB> regularly. I've pinged the DNS alias from my work computer and there RB> were no problems. Could anyone please just ping the alias for me, to RB> make sure it is getting outside my home network? Or just send me a RB> dummy message?
~$ host abel.spdns.eu abel.spdns.eu has address 89.247.237.247
$ telnet 89.247.237.247 binkp Trying 89.247.237.247... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host
$ traceroute 89.247.237.247 traceroute to 89.247.237.247 (89.247.237.247), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets [removed some lines] 6 62.214.37.109 (62.214.37.109) 24.194 ms 25.244 ms 28.573 ms 7 62.214.111.182 (62.214.111.182) 28.767 ms 62.214.111.178 (62.214.111.178) 11.861 ms 62.214.111.182 (62.214.111.182) 11.572 ms 8 i59F7EDF7.versanet.de (89.247.237.247) 232.340 ms !X 235.924 ms !X 237.094 ms !X
"!X" means: communication administratively prohibited, i.e. traceroute is blocked.
