Russell Senior wrote: > > If your ISP is Aracnet then Qwest/CenturyLink shouldn't (can't) be > filtering anything. If they are, that would be big news. If you ISP > is Aracnet, then the phone company should be shuffling your bits > directly to them untouched. They are strictly providing transit in > that scenario and the content of the bits are strictly none of their > business. I would strongly suspect that the port 25 filtering was > occuring somewhere else, either at your end or Aracnet's or maybe it > was a figment of your imagination entirely, due perhaps to confusing > stimuli (as sometimes happens). > > FWIW, I also have Aracnet over CenturyLink copper and the fact that I > am still getting mail implies that my port 25 is not being filtered. > > > Russell,
I may be confused as you say. I checked all my routers and none have any port 25 blocking enabled. My network has the DSL modem -> wireless router -> house router. The house router is a firewall and NAT for my desktops. The wireless router is strickly for wireless connections and does NAT for the house modem. The DSL modem does NAT for the wireless router. So somewhere there could be a closed port 25, but I sure did not see it here. The another explanation is Spiritone was blocking my port 25, but that is unlikely. Traceroutes from my house to mail.aracnet.com: [kens@atlas ~]$ traceroute mail.aracnet.com traceroute to mail.aracnet.com (216.99.193.7), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.123.1 (192.168.123.1) 2.949 ms 3.682 ms 4.333 ms 2 router.cad2cam (192.168.2.1) 16.420 ms 16.931 ms 17.453 ms 3 home.domain.actdsltmp (192.168.0.1) 17.972 ms 18.497 ms 19.019 ms 4 ptld-dsl-gw42-234.ptld.qwest.net (207.225.84.234) 50.268 ms 51.771 ms 52.833 ms 5 ptld-agw1.inet.qwest.net (207.225.86.73) 54.683 ms 56.311 ms 57.111 ms 6 * por-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.130.25) 41.847 ms 43.248 ms 7 sea-core-02.inet.qwest.net (67.14.41.6) 48.930 ms 49.843 ms 51.116 ms 8 sea-edge-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.26.134) 55.628 ms 56.268 ms 57.042 ms 9 65.126.54.206 (65.126.54.206) 57.819 ms 58.469 ms 59.398 ms 10 * tg9-4.cr01.sttlwatw.integra.net (209.63.114.133) 214.132 ms 214.655 ms 11 tg13-1.cr01.ptleorte.integra.net (209.63.114.98) 244.485 ms 245.239 ms 203.189 ms 12 tg9-1.ar10.ptldorfj.integra.net (209.63.114.154) 53.021 ms 55.131 ms 54.477 ms 13 67.136.135.70 (67.136.135.70) 68.622 ms 68.717 ms 71.659 ms 14 * * * 15 * * * 30 * * * Traceroute from aracnet.com: [kens@slate|~] $ traceroute ptld-dsl-gw42-234.ptld.qwest.net traceroute to ptld-dsl-gw42-234.ptld.qwest.net (207.225.84.234), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 b2.colo.spiritone.com (216.99.192.29) 2.516 ms 2.725 ms 2.716 ms 2 sst-pit-6509-gi94-spiritone.silverstartelecom.com (66.206.80.209) 0.623 ms 0.650 ms 0.652 ms 3 sst-gsr1-gi50-2-6509b-gi52.silverstartelecom.com (74.85.242.37) 0.615 ms 0.603 ms 0.589 ms 4 ge-11-0-3.mpr2.pdx1.us.above.net (64.125.188.137) 18.924 ms 18.932 ms 18.919 ms 5 xe-2-0-0.cr2.sjc2.us.above.net (64.125.30.158) 19.160 ms 19.150 ms 19.137 ms 6 xe-0-0-0.cr1.sjc2.us.above.net (64.125.30.125) 19.125 ms 19.091 ms 19.037 ms 7 64.125.28.17.available.above.net (64.125.28.17) 19.528 ms 19.520 ms 19.506 ms 8 xe-1-1-0.mpr3.sjc7.us.above.net (64.125.27.89) 19.199 ms 19.065 ms 18.776 ms 9 above-qwest.sjc7.us.above.net (64.125.13.222) 18.329 ms 18.270 ms 18.531 ms 10 por-core-02.inet.qwest.net (67.14.49.18) 21.586 ms 21.344 ms 21.550 ms 11 ptld-agw2.inet.qwest.net (205.171.130.30) 21.520 ms 21.305 ms 21.499 ms 12 ptld-dsl-gw42-78.ptld.qwest.net (207.225.86.78) 22.203 ms * * Interesting that it gets lost going to mail.aracnet.com, but finds my home nicely from aracnet.com to my home. I appreciate your inputs. -- Ken Stephens SV Aventura Portland, OR _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
