can't telnet out port 25

[Charlie Farinella]

On Thursday 15 November 2007, Ben Scott wrote:

>   What happens when you try?  Do you get an error message?  Does it
>   just sit forever waiting to connect?

# telnet mail.appropriatesolutions.com 25
Trying 63.131.36.2...
telnet: connect to address 63.131.36.2: No route to host
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host


> iptables -L -n -v --line

# iptables -L -n -v --line
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
num   pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               
destination
1    25745 4988K RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
num   pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               
destination
1        0     0 RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 9963 packets, 1897K bytes)
num   pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               
destination

Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
num   pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               
destination
1       10   500 ACCEPT     all  --  lo     *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0
2    25735 4987K ACCEPT     all  --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0
3        0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0           icmp type 255
4        0     0 ACCEPT     esp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0
5        0     0 ACCEPT     ah   --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0
6        0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
224.0.0.251         udp dpt:5353
7        0     0 ACCEPT     udp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0           udp dpt:631
8        0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0           state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
9        0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0           state NEW tcp dpt:22
10       0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0           state NEW tcp dpt:25
11       0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0           state NEW tcp dpt:80
12       0     0 ACCEPT     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0           state NEW tcp dpt:443
13       0     0 REJECT     all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            
0.0.0.0/0           reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

I don't know if they "lied", but I suspect that they provided me with 
the wrong information.

thanks,

--charlie

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Charles Farinella 
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cfarinella at AppropriateSolutions.com
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