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Re: Contact at mfa.gov.cn?

  • From: Christina Klam
  • Date: Thu Apr 03 08:42:46 2008 
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Matt & Lou,

I have sent an updated email to [email protected]  And, I will have a
co-worker who speaks Chinese call them today.

Thank you for your help,
Christina

Matt F wrote:
| Lou,
|
| I was not able to ping 219.238.192.6 from 192.* space, but was able to
| ping it from a non-192.* network in the same AS. It looks like they are
| filtering 192.168.0.0/8. Wouldn't be the first time.
|
| Lou Katz wrote:
|> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 12:13:29PM -0400, Christina Klam wrote:
|>
| Does someone have a contact name at mfa.gov.cn?  When one of our users
| tried to send an email to a host at mail.mfa.gov.cn, we discovered that
| we are being blocked by mfa.gov.cn.  From my gmail account, I have sent
| multiple emails to the contacts listed in APNIC. But, no one has
| responded.  Moreover, when I sent an email to [email protected], the
| email bounced as that mailbox does not exist.
|
| If someone has an IP range of 192.X.X.X, can you see if you see if you
| can get to mail.mfa.gov.cn?  At this point I do not know if someone fat
| fingered a RFC1918 ACL & is blocking 192.168.0.0/8 instead of
| 192.168.0.0/16, or if they are blocking us upon our AS number (26099).
|
|
|>>
|>> I suspect fat fingers. I am 192.160.193.X and get the following:
|>>
|>>
|>> [email protected]:/users/lou -=[1]=- telnet mail.mfa.gov.cn smtp
|>>
|>> (hangs)
|>>
|>> [email protected]:/users/lou -=[2]=- dig mail.mfa.gov.cn
|>>
|>> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1rc2 <<>> mail.mfa.gov.cn
|>> ;; global options:  printcmd
|>> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
|>>
|>> [email protected]:/users/lou -=[3]=- whois mfa.gov.cn
|>> Domain Name: mfa.gov.cn
|>> ROID: 20021209s10061s00002107-cn
|>> Domain Status: serverDeleteProhibited
|>> Domain Status: serverUpdateProhibited
|>> Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited
|>> Registrant Organization:
|>> -NÂqÂÃÂÃ
|>> Registrant Name: ÃoÂ;Ã
|>> Administrative Email: [email protected]
|>> Sponsoring Registrar: QÃ-Ã
|>> Name Server:ns2.mfa.gov.cn
|>> Name Server:ns4.mfa.gov.cn
|>> Registration Date: 2002-10-17 00:00
|>> Expiration Date: 2010-10-17 00:00
|>> [email protected]:/users/lou -=[4]=- dig mfa.gov.cn mx
|>>
|>> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1rc2 <<>> mfa.gov.cn mx
|>> ;; global options:  printcmd
|>> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
|>> [email protected]:/users/lou -=[5]=-
|>>
|>> However, from an account I have elsewhere,
|>>
|>> well% telnet mail.mfa.gov.cn smtp
|>> Trying 219.238.192.6...
|>> Connected to mail.mfa.gov.cn.
|>> Escape character is '^]'.
|>> 220 mail.mfa.gov.cn ESMTP Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.8.2-GA
|>> Queueing
|>> quit
|>> 221 mail.mfa.gov.cn Goodbye
|>> Connection closed by foreign host.
|>> well%
|>>
| Thanks,
| -- Cmk
|
|

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