4 Oct
2010
4 Oct
'10
4:04 p.m.
Hi Max,
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 08:59:43AM -0700, Max B wrote:
Why does
% telnet exoco.net 25
from an external machine not work (it hangs), while it does function at the
local?
Works for me:
$ telnet 212.13.195.120 25
Trying 212.13.195.120...
Connected to 212.13.195.120.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 exoco.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:01:03 GMT;
(No UCE/UBE) logging access from: [212.13.194.70](FORGED)-bitfolk.com [212.13.194.70] (may
be forged)
What am I missing??
Perhaps the place where you are testing from blocks port 25
outbound. It's pretty common.
tcptraceroute 212.13.195.120 25
from your source would be enlightening.
From my home:
Selected device br0, address 192.168.0.8, port 53128 for outgoing packets
Tracing the path to 212.13.195.120 on TCP port 25 (smtp), 30 hops max
1 192.168.0.7 1.575 ms 0.644 ms 0.654 ms
2 192.168.1.1 1.649 ms 1.691 ms 1.716 ms
3 losubs.subs.dsl2.th-lon.zen.net.uk (62.3.84.21) 33.656 ms 33.424 ms 35.651 ms
4 ge-0-0-0-115.cr2.th-lon.zen.net.uk (62.3.84.189) 33.637 ms 28.269 ms 29.675 ms
5 linx-gw-a.jump.net.uk (195.66.224.34) 31.616 ms 33.327 ms 33.388 ms
6 urquell.bitfolk.com (212.13.195.220) 34.582 ms 32.428 ms 36.621 ms
7 exoco.net (212.13.195.120) [open] 34.637 ms 39.463 ms 38.665 ms
Cheers,
Andy
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