> > I'm thinking I may not have explained this properly. My local ISP is > > Cox and I get the above list of filtered ports when port scanning my > > remote machine which is hosted halfway across the country. Cox can't > > prevent me from scanning the SMTP port on my remote machine right? My > > host must be filtering the ports? > > It's fairly standard practice on large mostly residential user ISPs to > filter outgoing port 25 traffic to any IP, but the local SMTP servers. > This stops a fair amount of spam, but can make troubleshooting complicated.
Crazy, I didn't think they filtered outgoing ports. This doesn't mean I need an MX host other than my remote server right? It's not like the server connects via residential Cox, it's a hosted system. I should be able to use SMTP from my laptop if I set up openvpn right? - Grant > kashani -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
