Israeli ISP blocking outgoing SMTP

[Tomer Cohen]

Hi,

Requiring ISPs to tell customers what they are blocking and why sounds as a
good idea to me. I am a customer of the same ISP for long time, and they are
blocking every application I use!

* I don't have secure IRC access for some months now (while regular IRC
connections work, but I prefer to authenticate securely).
* I am unable to connect to Google Jabber server using a desktop clients for
more than a year.
* They are limiting my access to CVS/SVN/Mercurial servers. While small
transfers work, I have to use workarounds when I have to transfer more than
few kilobytes.

When you call their "support services" they say the problem is not on thier
side. Too strange that I can access these servers from another ISPs while
the problem is "not their".

Tomer.



On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 20:55, ronys <ronys at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For the last few days, an ISP who shall remain nameless (but who's name in
> octal is equal to 11) has decided to block outgoing SMTP connections to
> servers abroad. They've done this unilaterally, without notifying customers,
> and, for the first couple of calls to support, without admitting anything
> beyond "there's a problem, we're working on it".
>
> Only after slowly spelling out what my problem was (no, I don't want to
> send e-mail via your servers, thank you) did I get them to log a request to
> unblock port 25 from my home account (still waiting for my work account to
> be unblocked).
>
> I realize that spam is a problem, but this 'solution' strikes me as, how to
> put it, inappropriate.
>
> Am I the only linux-il subscriber affected? It seems to me that the more
> customers that write/call to complain, the sooner they'll see the error in
> their ways.
>
> Pesach sameach,
>
>        Rony
>
>
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Tomer Cohen
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Sent from Haifa, Israel
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