[Wlug] Routing problem -can I believe the ISP tech? #2

[George Metz]

> Well, the problem was in the firewall, but it doesn't explain
> EVERYTHING that happened.
>
> After two hours on the phone Mon afternoon with Qwest tech support
> level 2, they insisted I try ping/traceroute with the firewall
> disabled. Pings moved through as expected ...hmmmm

Heh. Wierd. Glad to see you got it up and running though. On the e-mail
question, I've no clue unless they're all using the same hostnames; in which
case, it's probably due to something along the lines of relaying being
denied. As to the question of why you had connectivity for that two hours,
it IS really wierd, but it's possible that the firewall wasn't running at
home when you made the changes, or that for some odd reason it hadn't
included the rc.firewall.blocked script upon restart... (Okay, stabbing in
the dark there.)

George