[ale] blocked domains

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2007-11-27 13:39:25 -0500, Bob Toxen wrote:

> If I cannot reach a site, I always run multiple traceroute commands
> from different systems (preferably in widely separate geographic
> locations).  If you had done that, it would have been obvous that
> HellSouth had been blocking your system.

Bob, i'm pretty sure that the problem referenced was
rejected/blackholed SMTP traffic (selected via some sort of IP-based
blacklist), not a full IP-level packet rejection.  If was just SMTP, a
traceroute probably wouldn't have helped much in the diagnosis.

Regards,

         --dkg
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