Telnet works from desktop but not Server

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Published on 2009-11-20T21:20:27Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 22:08 UTC
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Sending mail via smtp.gmail.com is failing on my server. I looked on some forums and people were saying to make sure you can telnet to the smtp address first.

When I telnet from my server i input this and get this error:

[root@localhost ~]# telnet smtp.gmail.com 465
telnet: smtp.gmail.com: Temporary failure in name resolution
smtp.gmail.com: Host name lookup failure

From my OS X desktop I do the same and get this:

    Macintosh-3:~ joe$ telnet smtp.gmail.com 465
Trying 74.125.127.109...
Connected to gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com.

I'm running a fedora core 9 server with a firestarter firewall. I have turned off the firewall and the same error persists. I'm also using port forwarding from my router to this server. I have allowed forwarding for port 465 on my router as well.

Can someone please help.

Thanks, Joe

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