[187703] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Softlayer / Blocking Cuba IP's ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bacon Zombie)
Sat Feb 20 10:39:47 2016
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 16:39:43 +0100
From: Bacon Zombie <baconzombie@gmail.com>
To: Yang Yu <yang.yu.list@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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They have not blocked port 25 on their "legacy" EU Servers.
On 20 Feb 2016 9:39 am, "Yang Yu" <yang.yu.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Tony Wicks <tony@wicks.co.nz> wrote:
> > I had a couple of VM's (personal mail/web hosting) with a provider who
> used Softlayer for transit. About a month ago Softlayer (without any notice
> or warning) blocked all outgoing port 25 at multipole datacentres for this
> provider. It took the hosting provider half a day to work out what had
> happened. Needless to say as much as I liked the company I had to move my
> hosts elsewhere (they did refund me to their credit). It seems that someone
> at Softlayer is extremely aggressive on their blocking policies to the
> point of making their service unusable. I would highly recommend the
> community votes with its wallet when it comes to these turkeys.
> >
>
> http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/content/outbound-email-port-25
>
> The announcement supposedly came out sometime late last year.
> "We offer a trusted third party email relay service from SendGrid for
> those customers who need to be able to send outbound email from their
> domains or applications."
>
> It seems some indirect customers were not informed of it until it went
> into effect on Feb 1, 2016. For me the monitoring service on port 25
> stopped working.
>
