On 03/14/2015 12:45 PM, Talen-J wrote: > Outward emails are timing out. > > After nights of of searching and a lot of reading I am at a dead end. > > [snip > > Traceroute shows mail is leaving my server from UK but being stopped in US > for some reason (shown below). > > My IP address is 104.238.174.225. > > *traceroute -n -T -p 587 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com* > traceroute to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com (173.194.78.26), 30 hops max, 60 > byte packets > 1 * * * > 2 212.187.138.145 0.225 ms 0.448 ms 0.550 ms > 3 4.69.162.146 7.716 ms 8.197 ms 4.69.162.150 8.023 ms > 4 * * * > 5 * * * > 6 * * *
It's clear that, in the path you are trying to traverse, routers filter ICMP ECHO requests. So that isn't handy. To test the connectivity, try using a TELNET client to 173.194.78.26 port 25 and see what connections happen, and if you get any rejection messages. That will tell you more about what is going on than traceroute will, in this instance. You might want to ask Google if they have any controls on the IP address you are using, especially if you just got the IP address recently.
