On 01/03/13 09:56, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Someone suggested I might be on a blacklist, somehow, and that, at least, >>> would make technical sense. >> >> You could try checking something like >> >> http://multirbl.valli.org/ >> >> to rule out blacklisting as the issue. > > The only blacklists I know about involve mail and require the > receiving machines to actively choose to do lookups and reject based > on the result. Nothing should be dropping/blocking other types of > traffic. Very true. I thinking that if he _was_ on an email blacklist, then his network might _also_ have been flagged as bad (by something else). Because I didn't know about ... > There are an assortment of 'looking glass' sites on the > internet where you can originate traceroutes and check that BGP routes > for source and targets are being propagated. > This seems to be a directory of those sites: http://www.lookinglass.org/ Hey, that is very cool. Did not know such a thing existed. Thanks for pointing that out ;-) K -- Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd (w) +61 (0) 3 9008 5281 Suite 1415 401 Docklands Drive Docklands VIC 3008 Australia "All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer." -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925