{"id":506,"date":"2008-11-30T21:58:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T21:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2008-12-02T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T11:06:34","slug":"tiscali-whos-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/30\/tiscali-whos-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiscali? Who&#8217;s that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/tiscali.gif\" alt=\"Tiscali\" \/>My parents have Tiscali as their ISP. Recently they&#8217;ve had trouble connecting to Tiscali&#8217;s email server and have been blaming their router, but it happened while I was there today, so I did some quick checks.<\/p>\n<p>The actual error they were getting was that Outlook Express was reporting that the Tiscali mail server pop.tiscali.co.uk could not be resolved. I checked a couple of websites and found that the internet connection was not down at all, it was just that pop.tiscali.co.uk was not resolving.<\/p>\n<p>I added another DNS server to the search list and bingo &#8211; pop.tiscali.co.uk resolved and email worked again, so basically the fault was that Tiscali&#8217;s own DNS servers couldn&#8217;t resolve the address for their own email server &#8211; not a very impressive situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents have Tiscali as their ISP. Recently they&#8217;ve had trouble connecting to Tiscali&#8217;s email server and have been blaming their router, but it happened while I was there today, so I did some quick checks. The actual error they were getting was that Outlook Express was reporting that the Tiscali mail server pop.tiscali.co.uk could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}