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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:20:42 +0930 (CST)
From:      grog@FreeBSD.ORG
To:        brian@mpress.com (Brian Litzinger)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I determine who is blocking access?
Message-ID:  <199707282350.JAA02652@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970728152322.04005@mpress.com> from Brian Litzinger at "Jul 28, 97 03:23:22 pm"

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Brian Litzinger writes:
> Somewhere between my ip and another ip someone (a firewall I
> suppose) is stopping me from accessing the destination smtp
> server.  I can reach services on other ports.  Is there a tool
> that will help me locate which machine (router) is
> killing the packets?

You could try using traceroute.  You can set the port number with the
-p option, but it always uses UDP, whereas SMTP is usually a TCP
service.  You'll note from /etc/services, though, that smtp is also
defined as the same port number for UDP, so there's a chance that
you'll find the culprit with

  traceroute -p 25 dest-system

25 is the SMTP service number--traceroute doesn't understand the
service name.

Greg




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