>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Stephens <[email protected]> writes:
Russell> If your ISP is Aracnet then Qwest/CenturyLink shouldn't Russell> (can't) be filtering anything. If they are, that would be Russell> big news. If you ISP is Aracnet, then the phone company Russell> should be shuffling your bits directly to them untouched. Russell> They are strictly providing transit in that scenario and the Russell> content of the bits are strictly none of their business. I Russell> would strongly suspect that the port 25 filtering was Russell> occuring somewhere else, either at your end or Aracnet's or Russell> maybe it was a figment of your imagination entirely, due Russell> perhaps to confusing stimuli (as sometimes happens). Russell> FWIW, I also have Aracnet over CenturyLink copper and the Russell> fact that I am still getting mail implies that my port 25 is Russell> not being filtered. Ken> I may be confused as you say. I checked all my routers and none Ken> have any port 25 blocking enabled. My network has the DSL modem Ken> -> wireless router -> house router. The house router is a Ken> firewall and NAT for my desktops. The wireless router is Ken> strickly for wireless connections and does NAT for the house Ken> modem. The DSL modem does NAT for the wireless router. So Ken> somewhere there could be a closed port 25, but I sure did not see Ken> it here. Ah, atlas's ISP is qwest.net. Slate is the shell host at aracnet.com, iirc. So, it seems you have an account at Aracnet, but they aren't providing your DSL. You can try: $ tcptraceroute <destination-host> 25 to see which hop drops your port 25 traffic. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
