[TriLUG] accessing mail.trilug.org, port 993

[Alan Porter]

AJ> Run that on both interfaces of your gateway machine and I
AJ> suspect you'll discover that you do see the traffic on one
AJ> interface, and then not on the other, indicating that the
AJ> problem is with the firewall rules on the gateway in question.

As I mentioned earlier, I can connect to other IMAP servers from
home, so it's not a firewall issue.  I connected to your mail server
"bobjr" using "telnet mail.joyner.ws 993" with no problems.

AJ> Another valid test would be to see if you can connect to
AJ> port 993 on another box that you know supports connections
AJ> on that port.  You could use mail.joyner.ws as an arbitrary
AJ> example.  The purpose of that test being to demonstrate
AJ> that your ISP (or some other upstream provider) isn't
AJ> filtering all traffic destined to port 993 on any host.

Again, I connected to your mail server on port 993 OK.

AJ> Also you could try connecting to mail.trilug.org on another
AJ> port all together, for example 25.  This will help ensure that
AJ> you're not improperly routing traffic for mail.trilug.org
AJ> (via a bogus route, or some such).

"telnet mail.trilug.org 25" hangs.

My traceroute tests from home show that I can get as far as Inflow.
But not much further.

traceroute to mail.trilug.org (64.244.27.141), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1  funky (172.31.1.1)  3.605 ms  3.752 ms  3.901 ms
2  68.216.218.60 (68.216.218.60)  14.949 ms  13.685 ms  14.265 ms
3  68.216.218.1 (68.216.218.1)  14.233 ms  14.785 ms  14.831 ms
4  205.152.181.25 (205.152.181.25)  18.485 ms  167.297 ms  207.929 ms
5  axr00asm-7-1-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.237.36)  31.964 ms  32.034 
ms  30.962 ms
6  pxr00asm-0-0-0.bellsouth.net (65.83.236.0)  33.561 ms  30.582 ms  
31.390 ms
7  0.so-0-0-0.GW13.ATL5.ALTER.NET (157.130.73.97)  32.525 ms  39.108 
ms  32.580 ms
8  0.so-4-3-0.XL1.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.84.106)  36.967 ms  32.962 
ms  32.585 ms
9  0.so-0-0-0.TL1.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.10.102)  32.533 ms  31.559 
ms  31.504 ms
10  0.so-4-0-0.TL1.DCA6.ALTER.NET (152.63.38.61)  44.374 ms  46.778 
ms  44.715 ms
11  0.so-7-0-0.CL1.RDU1.ALTER.NET (152.63.0.77)  57.948 ms  59.397 ms  
81.987 ms
12  123.ATM7-0.GW5.RDU1.ALTER.NET (152.63.35.177)  62.002 ms  60.708 
ms  62.046 ms
13  inflowdurham-gw.customer.alter.net (157.130.40.198)  58.059 ms  
57.464 ms  57.959 ms
14  64.244.31.11 (64.244.31.11)  57.950 ms  59.136 ms  72.592 ms
15  * * *
...


AJ> PS - looks like I made time to write up the short description.  :)

As always, it's very much appreciated.


Alan