Filter on postoffice.reston.mci.net
Okay, I give up. Apparently MCI has an SMTP filter either on the domain netins.net or on something in the 167.142.0.0/16 network on postoffice.reston.mci.net. [167.142.225.4]$ telnet postoffice.reston.mci.net 25 Trying 204.70.128.20... Connected to postoffice.reston.mci.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 postoffice.Reston.mci.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:2) HELO netins.net 250 postoffice.Reston.mci.net Hello kevin@worf.netins.net [167.142.225.4], pleased.. MAIL FROM:<kevin@netins.net> 550 Access denied QUIT I've called the iNOC, they sent me to a 'systems group'. The systems group listened carefully and wrote down the error code '550 Access denied' before shuffling me off to the Reston office. There, I spoke to a very nice sales person, who searched a list of voicemail boxes she might forward me to. We pay MCI good money, and find ourselves unable to send mail to trouble@mci.net or other MCI addresses. Now I'm stuck in the MCI phone maze. If there was an incedent warrenting an SMTP filter, we'd certainly deal with it if notified. I know if that happened with one of our downstream customers, we'd actually contact them before throwing in filters. Anyone know who takes care of postoffice.reston.mci.net ? Kevin
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Kevin Houle writes:
HELO netins.net 250 postoffice.Reston.mci.net Hello kevin@worf.netins.net [167.142.225.4], pleased..
Before you drop the nukes, you might fix your MTA to properly identify your host.
Uh, since the "MTA" in question here was a human telnetting to a SMTP port the reconfiguarion should be quite easy... [A copy of the headers and the PGP signature follow.] Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 13:17:35 -0500 From: "Jeffrey C. Ollie" <jeff@ollie.clive.ia.us> In-Reply-To: <m0xDv1l-0007zaC@rip.psg.com> References: <199709241659.LAA32593@ins6.netins.net> <m0xDv1l-0007zaC@rip.psg.com> Subject: Re: Filter on postoffice.reston.mci.net To: nanog@merit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: AnySign 1.4 - A Python tool for PGP signing e-mail and news. iQCVAwUBNClZQ5wkOQz8sbZFAQFVEwP+IKc8oLz0BNcH4v8tJRfMBSohBkWv8njt jB3dq3kTPkoj8RlZbfgzBYYwrrK09uu4rCNPcQawTEnUlBHFKHC2KxgPQGfyG8gF 9/1QsjHdlx8M2TbwwdVrDeLnzDbnH6pR0HqNeYbPkhJVX9UR/bZ3H2uF4rw0F962 2ZaDeLUr+Hw= =8VF/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Jeffrey C. Ollie | Should Work Now (TM)
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Kevin Houle wrote:
Okay, I give up. Apparently MCI has an SMTP filter either on the domain netins.net or on something in the 167.142.0.0/16 network on postoffice.reston.mci.net.
[167.142.225.4]$ telnet postoffice.reston.mci.net 25 Trying 204.70.128.20... Connected to postoffice.reston.mci.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 postoffice.Reston.mci.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:2) HELO netins.net 250 postoffice.Reston.mci.net Hello kevin@worf.netins.net [167.142.225.4], pleased.. MAIL FROM:<kevin@netins.net> 550 Access denied QUIT
I've called the iNOC, they sent me to a 'systems group'. The systems group listened carefully and wrote down the error code '550 Access denied' before shuffling me off to the Reston office. There, I spoke to a very nice sales person, who searched a list of voicemail boxes she might forward me to.
We pay MCI good money, and find ourselves unable to send mail to trouble@mci.net or other MCI addresses. Now I'm stuck in the MCI phone maze. If there was an incedent warrenting an SMTP filter, we'd certainly deal with it if notified. I know if that happened with one of our downstream customers, we'd actually contact them before throwing in filters.
Anyone know who takes care of postoffice.reston.mci.net ?
Kevin
I had this same problem notifying UUNet when we had to change all out SNMP strings a few months ago. I called the NOC, got shuffled through about 8 people, and then finally just gave up trying. I still haven't recieved a call from them saying "Mr. Shaw, we are unable to monitor your router, please call us at 1.800.900.0241." Anyway, if MCI is anything like UUNet, they should have a group that handles SMTP services. In UUNet, I just ask for the SMTP group, so you might try doing the same. Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services
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