Off Topic but could someone do me a favor?

[Ed Barnes]

Hi Alex.
The best thing I can do here for you if your isp blocks both port 25 and 
port 110 is wish you good luck if you are going to try to reason with 
them.
The reality of the matter is that many isps just can't be reason with on 
the subject of the ports they block when confronted by customers who are 
trying to do what you're doing.
I know I tried to reason with my isp and I had no lick.
Luckally for me I found out yesterday that due to upgrading the phone 
company's done round here I qualify for dsl now, so at the end of this 
month the cable modem I have here is going, and as far as I know 
Sympatico in Newfoundland doesn't block any ports so I should be ok for 
running mail, web, and ftp from my Linux box.

Ed Barnes
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Alex Snow 
wrote:

> Hi Ed,
> My isp does infact block those ports (25/110), but not 23 for telnet.  I'm
> looking at seeing if
> (1) I can come to some kind of deal with them\
> (2) I can swich isps.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Barnes" <na007375 at janus.northatlantic.nf.ca>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Off Topic but could someone do me a favor?
> 
> 
> > Hi Alex, not much better success this time, could ping and I could
> > connect to your bbs, however; I had no luck connecting to the ports you
> > requested be tested I.E. 25, and 110.
> > Think you have an ism something like mine though I could be wrong and
> > that's definitely not a good thing however I learned today that I now
> > qualify for dsl so the cable modem is going at the end of this month if
> > it doesn't go before.
> > Ed Barnes
> > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Mail Delivery Subcenter wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Ed,
> > > The reason you weren't getting anyware was that a sudden thunderstorm
> > > knocked out power here in Connecticut last night and I was able to
> restart
> > > the server around 6 this morning.  My IP is semistatic (by that I mean
> it's
> > > not changed in about 6 months) so I point a static dns record to it and
> > > that's worked fine for a while. So if you could give that another try
> asap
> > > that'd be great!
> > > Thanks for your help,
> > > Alex Snow
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ed Barnes" <na007375 at janus.northatlantic.nf.ca>
> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 4:17 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Off Topic but could someone do me a favor?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi Alex. From my ip 209.128.49.233, all standard tests failed, I.E.,
> > > > telnet to ports 22, 23, 25 and 110. Further, ping sent like 12 packets
> > > > before I interrupted it with ctrl c and none of them were received. of
> > > > course, this is due to one of several explanations and you have more
> > > > Linux experience than I do so you're likely the best judge. As you
> > > > likely already these causes might include the fact your isp are
> > > > assholes, excuse my language but my isp are too, your machine was off,
> > > > your ip is dynamic and you didn't update it in dhs's database, etc...
> > > > Note however that my attempts did resolve to an ip for what that's
> > > > worth.
> > > > I hope this is helpful.
> > > > Ed Barnes
> > > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Alex Snow wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Ok, What kind of internet do you use?
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "brian Moore" <admin at bmoore.yi.org>
> > > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 6:27 PM
> > > > > Subject: Re: Off Topic but could someone do me a favor?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi.  NO joy there.  could ping it and got the ip address fine but
> > > > > > neither attempting to connect to port 25 or 110 worked.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > brian
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 4/30/02 at 5:56 PM Alex Snow wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >Hi all.
> > > > > > >Could someone please telnet to alex-snow.dhs.org port 25, then to
> > > port
> > > > > > 110? I'm having mail server nightmares, and I want to know if my
> isp
> > > > > > blocks those ports.
> > > > > > >Thanks a lot,
> > > > > > >Alex Snow
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
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