[wellylug] cable modem email issues

[Nigel Roberts]

Hi Jamie,

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 at 14:56:26 +1300, Jamie Dobbs wrote:

> Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> 
> >Well that's odd. I guess things must be spotty, as I've definitely seen
> >this in the past. I had a customer with exactly the same problems. I
> >tcptracerouted on port 25 from the US to the host in question, and
> >things definitely stopped at TCL international border in NZ. It must not
> >have been my imagination, as they're still paying us for the solution.
> >
> >I've doubled checked, and that seems to be the case.
> >
> >Network 203.96.154.0/24 is not filtered, but Network 203.79.97.0/24 is.
> >
> Looks like yet another reason to stay the hell away from TelstraClear 
> and their idiotic ideas of "customer service" and "technology".
> If I pay for an Internet connection I expect to be able to run any and 
> all services on it that I want to (obviously within the terms and 
> conditions of supply). If the provider is blocking certain ports tat are 
> stopping me from having what is rightfully mine I would take my custom 
> away from them.I know for certain that when I was on cable many years 
> ago you could run what ever you wanted and they blocked nothing, my 
> guess now is that they are trying to say its a purely residential 
> service so they won't allow you to run any servers?
> 
> When are people going to realise that TelstraClear are worse than 
> Telecom for ruining things, look at Paradise.net - it used to be a top 
> notch ISP with excellent service and customer support, now it's nothing 
> but a bunch of cowboys (IMHO).

Sounds like you've got a case of the Mondays.

Anyway, it's in the process of being fixed. This was caused by some
ranges that were being used for dialup being migrated to cable, and
then no one removing them from the inbound SMTP filter (dial up really
is filtered).

All cable ranges should have no filtering on them.