[TriLUG] garbled SMTP?

[Jeff Tickle]

Is it just outside the LAN or beyond your service provider?  I'm not
sure but they may have port 25 blocked somehow and that's the way they
do it...

-Jeff

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 19:38, Brian A. Henning wrote:
> Hi Listers,
>   Got the Cisco PIX firewall figured out (gracious thanks to those who
> helped!), got the router/modem into bridge configuration, all is
> well...except SMTP.
> 
> HTTP works great.
> SSH works great.
> POP3 works great.
> SMTP from inside the LAN works great.
> SMTP from outside the LAN works....not great.  If I attempt to telnet to
> port 25 from outside the LAN, I get this response:
> 
> 220
> *********************************************2*******2**********2******200**
> ***20*****0*00
> 
> ..and from that point, the session is unresponsive.
> 
> Anybody know what that means, and how to fix it?
> 
> Thanks a bunch,
> ~Brian
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Jeff Tickle <jtickle at jtsoft.net>
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