On May 16, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > jason hirsh: >> inet 209.160.68.112 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 209.255.255.255 > > Well that explains everything. With this, your machine believes > that all IP addresses in 209.* are on the local subnet. > >>> If the netmask is mis-configured (say, 0xff000000) then that explains >>> why we see no responses to connection attempts from 209.85.210.182 >>> (and other 209.* IP addresses). >>> >>> FYI this means that no-one in 209.* would be able to connect to >>> your web server as well. >> I am more then a little confused in that I have in fact received >> mail from that google server >> >> an example from message header is >> >> "Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com >> [74.125.83.54]) by tuna.theoceanwindow-bv.com (Postfix) with ESMTP >> id 11AB65C23 for <ja...@kasdivi.com>; Sat, 14 May 2011 22:37:41 >> -0400 (EDT)" >> > > Indeed. Have you noticed that this is 74.125.83.54?
staring at screen too long > > You will never receive a connection from 209.* until you fix > that IP netmask from 0xff000000. I am correcting.. thank you I was unable to get this quality of advice from the Freebsd forum I rechecked my mindspring bounce and found it was also a 209. IP > > Wietse
