Re: relay.verizon.net was Re: Email Problem
Gordon Hudson
"Simon Waters" <sim...@zynet.net> wrote in message
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> We've been having trouble for about a week contacting port 25 on
> relay.verizon.net
>
> We too can ping it. Google shows reports from about the 5th December,
> but it is unclear if the early reports at the same problem.
>
> I checked from servers at Eurobell, GXN, and Demon, all the same
> story, and received a report via a mailing list of another UK ISP who
> clients can't connect.
>
> Seems deliberately or inadvertently they have blocked email from vast
> chunks of the UK.
>
> Haven't established if it affects anywhere else in the world yet.US
> customers report no issue emailing them, and at least one client got
> his email redirected to his home account, and then forwarded it onto
> his Verizon account himself, and is looking at us accusingly wondering
> why we can no longer perform this simple function we've performed
> faithfully for many months.
I can confirm this.
For about 8 weeks we have been unable to email anyone at verizon.net email
addresses.
So they don't get password emails or renewal notices.
In some case sit does connect but the mail never arrives.
I was putting it down to anti spam filtering but I experimented with one
customer and even innocouous emails were not getting through.
No sign of our IP's being on any of the blacklists.
Using an SMTP server in the US is possible for us but a real PITA as we
have a one set for use by all our scripts.
I suspect its over zealous anti spam blacklisting.
Some ISP's do block whoile countries like China and Korea and I have heard
the UK mentioned as a major source of some types of undesirable email.
Not sure where they get that idea as I get very little from here.
However, I am getting a lot of fraud and other activity from UK broadband
connections that have been hijacked.
Rev Adrian Kennard
I expect it is, but must be very wide block as it fails from lots of
places. If it pings, then we have routing, and that is what we do! We
don't block or filter based on protocols or route on protocols (the
internet as a whole does not). If IP packets of any sort (e.g. pings)
can get there, then I can be sure it is not "us" or our transit
providers. The best bet is to contact "them" somehow and ask why they
are not accepting connections from you. Sorry!
> Some ISP's do block whoile countries like China and Korea and I have heard
> the UK mentioned as a major source of some types of undesirable email.
> Not sure where they get that idea as I get very little from here.
> However, I am getting a lot of fraud and other activity from UK broadband
> connections that have been hijacked.
>
>
>
>
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Rev Adrian Kennard
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Gordon Hudson
"Rev Adrian Kennard" <`@o.gg> wrote in message
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Its definitley not you as we have the same problem from Easynet and
Claranet.
Thomas Sandford
> We've been having trouble for about a week contacting port 25 on
> relay.verizon.net
>
There's a threwad started in demon.service about this too now...
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Jim Crowther
>There's a threwad started in demon.service about this too now...
That's the best description of d.s. I think I've ever seen. :)
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Stephen Howe
> Claranet.
Same problem here at Pipex.
I have reported the problem to Verizon (and got an email ticket).
Next step is to talk to my American friends and tell them to abandon
Verzion.
Verizon has pissed me off.
Stephen Howe
Simon Waters
relay.verizon.net
We too can ping it. Google shows reports from about the 5th December,