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Can't Send Mail to Verizon.net -- But Every Other Domain Works

Asked by: jbreg

I'm troubleshooting a problem whereby we cannot send mail to verizon.net addresses. Our users receive a "message has been delayed" message and finally a "Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients." message when the time limit expires for delivery.

We're using Exchange 2003. We are not on any blacklists, but I did go around checking for several hours.

I did an nslookup on verizon.net and found their mx is relay.verizon.net. I tried to Telnet to it on port 25--no dice. My question is--can anyone else do this? Is their mail server cocked up? I have tried on several completely different networks here and can't get through and haven't been able to for the past few days.

Exchange shows the messages in the queue and "the remote server did not respond to a connection attempt"

EVERY other domain appears to work perfectly with no problems. I strongly suspect a verizon issue but need some external validation to prove it...

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by: micamediaPosted on 2004-12-12 at 18:41:21ID: 12806212

One of my clients has the same problem with verizon. Unable to send to them. I have been able to telnet directly to the relay address, but as soon as i tell verizons SMTP the domain it's coming from, it drops the connection.

If you figure this out please let me know what's up.. i can't figure it out either.

 

by: jbregPosted on 2004-12-12 at 23:12:32ID: 12806918

Can you help me out with a few things:

1. In my use of nslookup I find that relay.verizon.net handles mail first for verizon.net--do you get the same?
2. I cannot telnet at all to relay.verizon.net--i just get connect failed. I have tried several disjoint networks (granted they are all in the UK). Can you connect and post results?
3. My gmail account can send mail to the domain, I found this out yesterday.

I can't find ANY other domain that this applies to, nor any reason why I would not be able to telnet to their mail server (and not even get a message telling me why I couldn't)...

 

by: micamediaPosted on 2004-12-13 at 07:09:16ID: 12809721

i can telnet to relay.verizon.net on port 25. I can tell you that much.. and here's what i get:

220 sc018pub.verizon.net MailPass SMTP server v1.1.1 - 121803235448JY ready Mon,
 13 Dec 2004 09:08:46 -0600

 

by: jbregPosted on 2004-12-13 at 07:11:33ID: 12809745

I wonder if it's blocking out non-US addresses. Does anyone know why I might not be able to get to it? I can telnet ANYONE else but not them...

 

by: jbregPosted on 2005-02-26 at 05:35:16ID: 13410190

This was due to some very odd firewall rule on their part which was blocking us at the IP level. I finally got in touch with them and sorted it out...

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