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[ale] blocked domains
- Subject: [ale] blocked domains
- From: dkg at fifthhorseman.net (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
- Date: Tue Nov 27 19:54:35 2007
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Bob Toxen's message of "Tue\, 27 Nov 2007 13\:39\:25 -0500")
- References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
On Tue 2007-11-27 13:39:25 -0500, Bob Toxen wrote:
> If I cannot reach a site, I always run multiple traceroute commands
> from different systems (preferably in widely separate geographic
> locations). If you had done that, it would have been obvous that
> HellSouth had been blocking your system.
Bob, i'm pretty sure that the problem referenced was
rejected/blackholed SMTP traffic (selected via some sort of IP-based
blacklist), not a full IP-level packet rejection. If was just SMTP, a
traceroute probably wouldn't have helped much in the diagnosis.
Regards,
--dkg
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