Having seen this behavior before from overzealous network admins,
especially given the fact that freenet owns their netblock and their NS are
self-hosted on said netblock rather than cloud DNS SaaS, it's very likely a
firewall rule.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the case, OVH isn't exactly known for
reputable traffic.

- Mark Alley


On Fri, Mar 8, 2024, 6:48 AM Stefano Bagnara <mai...@bago.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 at 13:04, Mark Alley <mark.al...@tekmarc.com> wrote:
> > Have you considered they may be blocking OVH ASNs on their firewall?
>
> Well, blocking the whole ASNs even to their NS sounds something very
> unexpected. This mean any service (not only email) that is hosted in
> OVH (in europe is the biggest provider) thinks their domains don't
> even exists.
> Also, freenet.de users are not able to write emails to anyone having
> the DNS hosted at OVH (millions of domains): sounds like burning your
> house to protect it from thieves :-D
>
> Seems like AS5430 and AS16276 are not talking at all, but I don't know
> how confirm it and how to check where is the issue in more detail.
>
> > Their NS and zone seems resolvable and reachable from pretty much
> everything else on the internet according to DNSchecker.org.
>
> Here you can see their NS IP is not reachable from 7 on 30 location
> being tested from western europe:
> https://www.host-tracker.com/en/ic/3/189c2804-114d-4be7-94e5-716f131bc458
>
> So, I think the issue is more on freenet side than OVH side, but I'd
> need someone who knows or have powers to check.
>
> Now I also wrote an email to the noc/peer emails for both ASN.
> Stefano
>
> > 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> Stefano Bagnara
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