Russell Senior wrote: >>>>>> "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. > > > [root@atlas ~]# tcptraceroute mail.aracnet.com 25 Selected device eth0, address 192.168.123.4, port 50796 for outgoing packets Tracing the path to mail.aracnet.com (216.99.193.7) on TCP port 25 (smtp), 30 hops max 1 192.168.123.1 1.221 ms 1.024 ms 1.225 ms 2 192.168.2.1 3.064 ms 2.694 ms 2.694 ms 3 192.168.0.1 3.773 ms 3.525 ms 3.676 ms 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 *^C
Kind of says it all. Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
