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Originally Posted by Imhotep

Agreed, but open one way only! Have you ever heard the term "firewall"? Like I said before, my host has blocked outgoing on port 119. They could care less about incoming. They block outgoing and cite "ongoing usenet abuses" as their excuse. Port blocking is a two lane road. You have incoming and outgoing. Just because I can receive posts does not mean it's open both ways. I hope I don't have to explain this again. :ermm:

And, since I did not get an aswer to my questions, but rather a misguided and thinly-veild scolding, I will have to email my host instead and see if they have a global block on all outgoing NNTP.

SERVER <====NNTP INCOMING====< NSP
SERVER >====NNTP BLOCKED?====> NSP

It seems you understand about firewall and TCP/IP, please explain what port is blocked and what is open, be it UDP or TCP protocol. How about an iptable/ipchain rule table for the firewall?

You receive and post news on the same port! I like to see the result of the telnet session from your web server to the nntp server's port 119. Do you know you can post news in the same session.

Now if they filter your tcp contents, then it is a different story, nothing to do with port blocking.

I am here trying to help you, you do not seems to understand my intention, rather, you think I gave you misguided information just for the fun of it. I shall not bother.