Hello, Is there a script or something that will show which ports my ISP is blocking?
What are you trying to do and what kind of trouble are you having doing it? My understanding is that many ISPs including pacbell are going to be blocking port 25 so that their proxified users won't be effective at being spam injectors. Pacbell has been known to block 135 in the past to counteract the blaster worm, and some providers have blocked 1214 because of kazaa.
If you run a script (think about what you are trying to appear to do) then you will find all ports blocked when they terminate your account for scanning. Me
That's exactly it. I went on the support chat thing and asked them to unblock port 25 and they said that they did. However, it still doesn't work. I can receive email from my own servers.
John wrote: That's 'exactly it' meaning what? That you have some need to be able to use port 25 with anything other than your own pacbell server? What are you trying to do? Don't let any chat support techs blow smoke up your skirt. Some of them only know what is in their cookbook and some of them can't even read /that/ and some of them are actually helpful -- but the tech support for big providers goes to the lowest bidder. That doesn't surprise me. But you didn't describe exactly what it is that doesn't work. The better you describe exactly what you are trying to do, the better the help is going to be around here. We are going to have to get some things clarified. When you pop/receive mail from your provider's server, you are typically doing it on port 110. When you smtp/send mail to your provider's server, you are typically doing it on port 25. If you are wanting to use some other mail provider's smtp service, these days it is highly likely that you should be sending it over some other port than 25. Which mail server *OUT* not *receive* are you wanting to use?
What does 'my own servers' mean in this context? Are you saying that you are wanting to have a/ your own/ mailserver sending and receiving mail using the/your pacbell DSL IP? Or when you say 'my own servers' you are talking about pacbell servers?