problems receiving e-mail to my server redux

[Ed Greshko]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 19:11, Ed McCorduck wrote:

> Here's what my ISP told me about any blocking of smtp connections:
> 
> > Road Runner does not block any significant ports on your
> > connection. The Road Runner service only blocks ports 137-139
> > inclusive for the security of your system. These blocked
> > ports will not affect connectivity

There is nothing wrong with the connection to sendmail at your site.

[egreshko at misty egreshko]$ telnet 24.24.15.155 25
Trying 24.24.15.155...
Connected to syr-24-24-15-155.twcny.rr.com (24.24.15.155).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 edsgate.mccorduck.ws ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8/8.12.8; Wed, 14 Jul 2004
09:54:44 -0400
quit

The problem is still in DNS....

[egreshko at misty egreshko]$ host -t mx mccorduck.ws
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

A quick nmap scan of your host shows....

Port       State       Service
22/tcp     open        ssh
25/tcp     open        smtp
80/tcp     open        http
110/tcp    open        pop-3
111/tcp    open        sunrpc
135/tcp    filtered    loc-srv
136/tcp    filtered    profile
137/tcp    filtered    netbios-ns
138/tcp    filtered    netbios-dgm
139/tcp    filtered    netbios-ssn
143/tcp    open        imap2
445/tcp    filtered    microsoft-ds
593/tcp    filtered    http-rpc-epmap
1024/tcp   open        kdm
1400/tcp   filtered    cadkey-tablet
6000/tcp   open        X11
Remote operating system guess: Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.5.20
Uptime 0.267 days (since Wed Jul 14 15:37:43 2004)
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments
                         Difficulty=5447144 (Good luck!)
IPID Sequence Generation: All zeros

Which indicates that port 53 for your DNS server is not opened.



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