Contact at mfa.gov.cn?

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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).

Thanks,
- -- Cmk

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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:
中华人民共和国外交部
Registrant Name: 信息化办主任
Administrative Email: master@mfa.gov.cn
Sponsoring Registrar: 网络中心
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%

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Lou,

I was not able to ping 219.238.192.6 from 192.* space, but was able to ping it from a non-192.* network in the same AS. It looks like they are filtering 192.168.0.0/8. Wouldn't be the first time.

Lou Katz wrote:

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Matt & Lou,

I have sent an updated email to master@mfa.gov.cn. And, I will have a
co-worker who speaks Chinese call them today.

Thank you for your help,
Christina

Matt F wrote: