Port 25 closing?

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:11 -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 02:27 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> 
> >     As I explained in my original message, it's not the mail server.  
> > Other machines on the network can continue to connect and send through 
> > it just fine.  This is strictly an XP problem on one of the machines - 
> > all the other ones are working just fine (although none of them are 
> > running SP2 except for this one problematic one.)
> > 
> >     As someone else suggested, next time it happens, I'll shut down the 
> > Windows Firewall, see if that clears things up - my guess is it will.
> 
>     Just to keep you aware (and this doesn't sound to be the case, here)
> many of the ISPs have begun shutting down port 25 outbound to the world
> due to spam and viruses.  Caused a lot of problem across town, on SBC.
> Thankfully, it was reversable.
> 
>     Just something to keep in mind.

Here in Bellsouth land we cannot get inbound port 25 traffic either,
even though I have a fixed IP address.  I guess they think all we want
to do is run web servers.

Bob...