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Date:      Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:57:06 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        admin@FreeBSD.org, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Blocking earthlink (was: How did the MSFT monopoly start?)
Message-ID:  <20010810005706.B6485@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010810164617.H37968@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:46:17PM %2B0930
References:  <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> <20010808160551.Q78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3B7103A4.558B9B3B@mindspring.com> <20010809124559.G73579@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010810001105.A6407@blossom.cjclark.org> <20010810164617.H37968@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:46:17PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:

[snip]

> > I use Earthlink and it looks like someone's blocked outgoing port 25
> > from their network that is not going to their own mail servers. If I
> > do,
> >
> >   $ telnet hub.freebsd.org 25
> >   Trying 216.136.204.18...
> >   telnet: connect to address 216.136.204.18: Network dropped connection on reset
> >   telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
> >
> > I get blocked,
> >
> >   # tcpdump -itun0 -n
> >   00:07:29.298296 209.244.105.174.1184 > 216.136.204.18.25: S 3233816272:3233816272(0) win 16384 <mss 1484,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,timestamp 4821218 0> (DF) [tos 0x10]
> >   00:07:29.435204 209.244.43.80 > 209.244.105.174: icmp: net 216.136.204.18 unreachable - admin prohibited
> >
> >   $ host 209.244.43.80
> >   80.43.244.209.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer nas16.sjo1.Level3.net
> >
> > I can otherwise access hub just fine. Only port 25 is affected.
> 
> Hmm.  Looks like a firewall rule.  I don't know if that's intended;
> I'm copying admin@, who will possibly reply.

I think you may have misunderstood. I believe _Earthlink_ is blocking
outgoing SMTP (25/tcp) as an anti-spam measure. That machine producing
the ICMP unreachable is my first hop,

  $ traceroute hub.freebsd.org
  traceroute to hub.freebsd.org (216.136.204.18), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
   1  nas16.sjo1.Level3.net (209.244.43.80)  114.970 ms  118.485 ms  109.333 ms
   2  gigabitethernet7-0-1.core2.SanJose1.Level3.net (63.215.14.3)  109.087 ms gigabitethernet7-0-2.core2.SanJose1.Level3.net (63.215.15.3)  108.277 ms gigabitethernet7-0-1.core2.SanJose1.Level3.net (63.215.14.3)  107.879 ms
   3  gigabitethernet10-2.ipcolo3.SanJose1.Level3.net (64.159.2.169)  107.590 ms  108.293 ms  108.825 ms
   4  cust-int.level3.net (64.152.69.18)  109.094 ms  118.089 ms  109.310 ms
   5  ge-1-3-0.msr1.pao.yahoo.com (216.115.100.150)  109.079 ms  108.327 ms  109.108 ms
   6  vl22.bas1.sc5.yahoo.com (216.115.100.233)  118.835 ms  108.502 ms  109.206 ms
   7  hub.freebsd.org (216.136.204.18)  118.861 ms  108.087 ms  118.898 ms

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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