Hi Torry,
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Torry Crass wrote:
> Sorry to be back here with this since I was truly hoping it would be
> resolved by now since it's yet weeks later and still a problem but I
> thought I might be able to use another "spot".
>
> Here's where the issue stands:
>
> Certain systems still are not able to get mail to my server. The initial
> errors that they were getting have been something like this:
...
> the error "did" change to this:
>
> ## Deferred: Connection refused by mail.pleiadesdesign.com. ##
>
> Now, I can say with extreme certainty that I am in "no way" blocking mail or
> connections and even have dropped my trousers on this one to ensure that I'm
> not blocking anything and I don't even get so much as an attempted
> connection to my system by any of the systems having this problem meaning
> the traffic isn't even making it to my server. What I suspect (which I have
> for a bit but am getting closer to being able to prove this beyond a doubt)
> is that there are a select few routing systems on the net which for some
> reason are not properly routing traffic in my direction like they should be.
...
> What I need, if someone would be so kind (Maybe Ted perhaps if you still
> have those subnets which appeared blocked) is for someone to toss
> traceroutes from their direction at my server and then me send traceroutes
> back at it and see where things are stopping.
chris@gcc(~)$ telnet mail.pleiadesdesign.com 25
Trying 69.30.204.75...
Connected to mail.pleiadesdesign.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.pleiadesdesign.com ESMTP Exim 4.61 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:22:32
-0500
This is from 81.107.45.145.
Where are you sending from? Perhaps your client-side ISP is blocking
outbound port 25?
Cheers, Chris.
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