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Re: outgoing tcp port 25 blocked? how to prove it?

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Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> writes:

> Lesley Esen <lesen@wimezu.com> writes:
>> # tcpdump -n port 25
>> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
>> listening on ena0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
>> 09:01:45.939473 IP 172.26.5.226.37963 > 69.164.210.174.25: Flags
>> [S], seq 1665376094, win 65535,
>
> 172.26.*.* is private, not public, IP address space.  If that's the TCP
> source address being sent to the remote hosts, it's not surprising
> you're not getting an answer.  If I'm reading your article right, the
> public IP address 34.197.192.71.

That's the public IP address, yes.  This is typical on the AWS network.
Each instance gets a private and a public IP address.  I never see the
public IP address in the instance, but the packets must be being
rewritten by the AWS network because I can communicate with the outside
world just fine.

> If you can't solve the problem directly, you may need to relay outbound
> mail via some AWS mail forwarder, if they have them.

I think that's also possible.

>> The host 69.164.210.174 also runs an SMTP server, but someone seems to
>> block my path to it.  It might not AWS as I also can't reach it from my
>> personal computer (with a dynamic IP address).
>
> Try "netstat -an4" on 69.164.210.174 to verify that the mail server is
> indeed listening on port 25.

%netstat -an4 | grep 25
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:25              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 69.164.210.174:25       194.169.175.47:34740    TIME_WAIT
tcp        0      0 69.164.210.174:25       194.169.175.47:40116    TIME_WAIT

Thanks!

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outgoing tcp port 25 blocked? how to prove it? Lesley Esen <lesen@wimezu.com> - 2024-10-18 11:03 -0300
  Re: outgoing tcp port 25 blocked? how to prove it? Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> - 2024-10-18 20:18 -0400
    Re: outgoing tcp port 25 blocked? how to prove it? Lesley Esen <lesen@wimezu.com> - 2024-10-19 09:11 -0300
      Re: outgoing tcp port 25 blocked? how to prove it? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-10-19 07:33 -0700
        Re: outgoing tcp port 25 blocked? how to prove it? Lesley Esen <lesen@wimezu.com> - 2024-10-19 13:13 -0300
      Re: outgoing tcp port 25 blocked? how to prove it? John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-10-19 18:40 +0000
        Re: outgoing tcp port 25 blocked? how to prove it? Lesley Esen <lesen@wimezu.com> - 2024-10-19 19:13 -0300
      Re: outgoing tcp port 25 blocked? how to prove it? Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2024-10-19 19:43 +0000

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