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Re: ISP port blocking practice

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Boyd)
Fri Oct 23 16:50:07 2009

From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
In-Reply-To: <5fb2e8c20677ede59e8d6d355d63ea8c@yyc.orthanc.ca>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:49:20 -0500
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote:

> As for outright blockage of port 587, I get this complaint from many  
> of
> my clients while they are on the road. It seems hotels love to block  
> it.

I travel a bit (used to a lot) and only found one place that proxied  
it.  Never saw an outright block.  A call to the support group  
actually got if fixed in about 45 minutes.  Call and complain if it's  
broken.  You are the customer at that point.....

--Chris



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