Have you considered they may be blocking OVH ASNs on their firewall?

Their NS and zone seems resolvable and reachable from pretty much
everything else on the internet according to DNSchecker.org.

- Mark Alley


On Fri, Mar 8, 2024, 5:54 AM Stefano Bagnara via mailop <mailop@mailop.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm experiencing routing issues to freenet.de MX since almost 3 days.
>
> I can't even lookup the domain as I cannot reach their NS, but the
> same happens even if I try to ping their email server IP address:
>
> 194.97.8.138
> 195.4.92.217
>
> From my servers @OVH they are not reachable at all.
>
> I checked the IPs at https://check-host.net/check-ping and I see both
> IP pings from most places but a netherland one, hong kong and 4
> russians sources (by comparison my own IPs are reachable from all of
> those sources).
>
> Failing traceroutes from check-host.net and from my IPs stuck at a
> Cloudflare IP:
>
> # traceroute 194.97.8.138
> traceroute to 194.97.8.138 (194.97.8.138), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
>  1  MYIP  0.373 ms  0.484 ms  0.590 ms
>  2  10.17.50.74 (10.17.50.74)  0.356 ms 10.17.50.72 (10.17.50.72)
> 0.396 ms  0.458 ms
>  3  10.73.17.68 (10.73.17.68)  0.101 ms 10.73.16.116 (10.73.16.116)
> 0.107 ms 10.73.17.70 (10.73.17.70)  0.134 ms
>  4  10.95.64.142 (10.95.64.142)  1.027 ms 10.95.64.156 (10.95.64.156)
> 0.424 ms 10.95.64.136 (10.95.64.136)  0.421 ms
>  5  par-gsw-sbb1-nc5.fr.eu (54.36.50.228)  3.949 ms  3.825 ms  3.821 ms
>  6  10.200.2.85 (10.200.2.85)  4.079 ms 10.200.2.77 (10.200.2.77)
> 71.136 ms  71.123 ms
>  7  * * *
>  8  172.71.120.4 (172.71.120.4)  4.689 ms 141.101.67.52
> (141.101.67.52)  4.538 ms  4.578 ms
>  9  172.71.133.105 (172.71.133.105)  3.842 ms 172.71.129.237
> (172.71.129.237)  4.226 ms 172.69.187.98 (172.69.187.98)  4.214 ms
> 10  172.71.133.23 (172.71.133.23)  5.352 ms 172.71.117.70
> (172.71.117.70)  4.631 ms 172.71.121.67 (172.71.121.67)  4.512 ms
> 11  * * *
> 12  * * *
> 13  * * *
>
> I thought it was a peering issue, but 3 days should be enough for
> someone to detect and fix it.
>
> It doesn't look like a blacklisting issue as I cannot even query their
> authoritative NS and I can't do that even from IPs that never sent
> emails.
>
> I also checked OVH looking glass and they fail routing to freenet from
> all of their DCs:
>
> https://lg.ovh.net/traceroute/sgp+vin+sbg+bhs+hil+rbx+lim+bom+gra+waw+syd1+eri/ipv4?q=194.97.8.138
>
> I also tried using OVH hosted email to write an email to a freenet.de
> domain and it resulted in a "Domain not found" error, so to confirm
> the whole OVH network can't reach the freenet.de NS.
>
> I opened a ticket to OVH but they closed it telling me the traceroute
> show the problem in outside their network (last working hop is a
> cloudflare IP).
>
> Peering/routing is not my field, so I'm looking for other people with
> problems sending emails to freenet.de and for suggestions on how/who
> to contact to fix the issue (maybe I should look for an NOC-op mailing
> list?) .
>
> Stefano
>
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