Re: Contact at mfa.gov.cn?

[Lou Katz <lou () metron com>]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 12:13:29PM -0400, Christina Klam wrote:
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> Does someone have a contact name at mfa.gov.cn?  When one of our users
> tried to send an email to a host at mail.mfa.gov.cn, we discovered that
> we are being blocked by mfa.gov.cn.  From my gmail account, I have sent
> multiple emails to the contacts listed in APNIC. But, no one has
> responded.  Moreover, when I sent an email to postmaster () mfa gov cn, the
> email bounced as that mailbox does not exist.
>
> If someone has an IP range of 192.X.X.X, can you see if you see if you
> can get to mail.mfa.gov.cn?  At this point I do not know if someone fat
> fingered a RFC1918 ACL & is blocking 192.168.0.0/8 instead of
> 192.168.0.0/16, or if they are blocking us upon our AS number (26099).

I suspect fat fingers. I am 192.160.193.X and get the following:


lou@pop:/users/lou -=[1]=- telnet mail.mfa.gov.cn smtp

(hangs)

lou@pop:/users/lou -=[2]=- dig mail.mfa.gov.cn

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1rc2 <<>> mail.mfa.gov.cn
;; global options:  printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

lou@pop:/users/lou -=[3]=- whois mfa.gov.cn
Domain Name: mfa.gov.cn
ROID: 20021209s10061s00002107-cn
Domain Status: serverDeleteProhibited
Domain Status: serverUpdateProhibited
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited
Registrant Organization:
??????????????????????????????
Registrant Name: ??????????????????
Administrative Email: master () mfa gov cn
Sponsoring Registrar: ????????????
Name Server:ns2.mfa.gov.cn
Name Server:ns4.mfa.gov.cn
Registration Date: 2002-10-17 00:00
Expiration Date: 2010-10-17 00:00
lou@pop:/users/lou -=[4]=- dig mfa.gov.cn mx

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1rc2 <<>> mfa.gov.cn mx
;; global options:  printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
lou@pop:/users/lou -=[5]=- 


However, from an account I have elsewhere,

well% telnet mail.mfa.gov.cn smtp
Trying 219.238.192.6...
Connected to mail.mfa.gov.cn.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.mfa.gov.cn ESMTP Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.8.2-GA Queueing
quit
221 mail.mfa.gov.cn Goodbye
Connection closed by foreign host.
well% 

> Thanks,
> - -- Cmk
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