Ward Vandewege wrote:
Hi Joe,
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 05:09:28PM -0400, joe@smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
Arggg again. I can see my emails in pipermail, but I am not getting any of them. Can someone look at the email headers and see it anything looks crazy?
The problem seems to be that khepri (the coreboot.org server) can't connect to port 25 on smittys.pointclark.net:
khepri:/var/log/exim $ telnet smittys.pointclark.net 25 Trying 65.175.181.44...
... that times out.
From here in Boston:
$ telnet smittys.pointclark.net 25 Trying 65.175.181.44... Connected to smittys.pointclark.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 smittys.pointclark.net ESMTP Postfix quit 221 Bye Connection closed by foreign host.
Traceroute looks normal:
khepri:/var/log/exim $ traceroute smittys.pointclark.net traceroute to smittys.pointclark.net (65.175.181.44), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 gw.rtr1.colo1.NBG1.ip-exchange.de (212.123.124.185) 0.317 ms 0.490 ms 0.501 ms 2 ge3-5.cr2.NBG1.content-core.net (212.123.127.65) 0.224 ms 0.227 ms 0.217 ms 3 Tenge2-4-57.cr3.FRA3.content-core.net (212.123.123.203) 3.525 ms 3.471 ms 3.484 ms 4 4G-p2.cr1.FRA3.content-core.net (212.123.123.42) 3.503 ms 3.458 ms 3.402 ms 5 193.159.224.21 (193.159.224.21) 3.707 ms 3.700 ms 3.509 ms 6 f-ea5.F.DE.net.DTAG.DE (62.154.16.161) 3.741 ms 3.753 ms 3.759 ms 7 te-4-4.car2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.68.110.253) 4.089 ms 4.119 ms 4.101 ms 8 ae-32-54.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.68.118.126) 6.728 ms 16.346 ms 13.799 ms 9 ae-1-100.ebr1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.132.125) 13.597 ms 6.701 ms 6.489 ms 10 ae-2.ebr2.Paris1.Level3.net (4.69.132.141) 13.381 ms 26.367 ms 25.514 ms 11 ae-44.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.62) 100.867 ms ae-41.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.50) 97.342 ms ae-42.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.137.54) 97.593 ms 12 ae-82-82.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.154) 107.265 ms ae-92-92.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.158) 97.440 ms ae-62-62.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.146) 101.640 ms 13 ae-71-71.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.133) 97.547 ms ae-81-81.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.137) 103.698 ms * 14 ae-4-4.car1.Cleveland1.Level3.net (4.69.132.193) 101.302 ms 102.199 ms 102.147 ms 15 ae-11-11.car2.Cleveland1.Level3.net (4.69.132.198) 102.603 ms 101.464 ms 101.079 ms 16 ROADRUNNER.car2.Cleveland1.Level3.net (4.78.59.46) 122.099 ms 122.230 ms 121.963 ms 17 gig15-0-0.ptldmeptl-rtr02.nyroc.rr.com (24.24.7.150) 134.609 ms 135.359 ms 134.807 ms 18 rrcs-24-39-3-2.nys.biz.rr.com (24.39.3.2) 134.779 ms 136.254 ms 135.865 ms 19 * * * ...
And from here in Boston:
$ traceroute smittys.pointclark.net traceroute to smittys.pointclark.net (65.175.181.44), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets ... 3 vl200.aggr1.sbo.ma.rcn.net (209.6.160.100) 16.420 ms 16.833 ms 17.103 ms 4 ge3-4.border1.sbo.ma.rcn.net (207.172.19.85) 46.691 ms 47.108 ms 47.312 ms 5 gigabitethernet6-24.car2.bos1.Level3.net (63.211.176.17) 17.384 ms 20.025 ms 20.415 ms 6 ae-5-5.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.132.250) 28.679 ms 27.749 ms 25.022 ms 7 ae-81-81.csw3.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.74) 28.837 ms ae-91-91.csw4.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.78) 31.413 ms ae-61-61.csw1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.66) 22.518 ms 8 ae-74-74.ebr4.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.117) 25.795 ms ae-83-83.ebr3.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.105) 21.125 ms ae-93-93.ebr3.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.109) 19.931 ms 9 ae-3.ebr3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.89) 26.395 ms ae-3.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.93) 26.157 ms ae-3.ebr3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.89) 27.952 ms 10 ae-74-74.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.182) 27.395 ms ae-83-83.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.170) 35.010 ms ae-94-94.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.190) 33.347 ms 11 ae-61-61.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.129) 26.157 ms ae-71-71.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.133) 26.932 ms ae-81-81.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.137) 26.572 ms 12 ae-4-4.car1.Cleveland1.Level3.net (4.69.132.193) 32.026 ms 32.630 ms 32.396 ms 13 ae-11-11.car2.Cleveland1.Level3.net (4.69.132.198) 32.929 ms 33.136 ms 35.418 ms 14 ROADRUNNER.car2.Cleveland1.Level3.net (4.78.59.46) 34.417 ms 34.816 ms 35.012 ms 15 gig15-0-0.ptldmeptl-rtr02.nyroc.rr.com (24.24.7.150) 42.779 ms 42.381 ms 46.577 ms 16 rrcs-24-39-3-2.nys.biz.rr.com (24.39.3.2) 49.243 ms 48.864 ms 48.490 ms 17 rrcs-24-39-50-36.nys.biz.rr.com (24.39.50.36) 51.890 ms 48.315 ms 51.254 ms 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 * * * ...
So, "the internet is broken". Routing problem somewhere between Germany and the US?
Or... you're not doing fancy antispam based on RBLs or something are you, that would just drop incoming tcp connections from 'suspicious' IPs?
This is weird.
host -t mx smittys.pointclark.net smittys.pointclark.net has no MX record
host -t mx pointclark.net pointclark.net mail is handled by 10 antivirus1.pointclark.com. pointclark.net mail is handled by 10 antivirus2.pointclark.com. pointclark.net mail is handled by 10 antivirus3.pointclark.com. pointclark.net mail is handled by 10 antivirus4.pointclark.com.
Sending mails via the MXes of pointclark.net works fine.
So, yes, either someone's blocking the connection or it's a transatlantic routing problem.