709199 - Cannot connect to news.mozilla.org on MoTo "Mozilla Guest" wifi network

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: NetOps, task)

Description

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

godot:~ jdm$ ping news.mozilla.org
PING news.mozilla.giganews.com (216.196.97.169): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2

Comment 1

[Ravi Pina [:ravi]]

Since you didn't specify what port you were trying I am going to infer 119/tcp.

Currently our ability to mitigate abuse on the guest network is limited because of a  vendor bug.  Services that can be also accessed through other means (in this case though Google or other http(s) means) should be done that way.

We also block ICMP.

Comment 2

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

I was trying to use the default Thunderbird configuration for news servers, which looks like 119 TCP.

Comment 3

[Arzhel Younsi [:XioNoX]]

Port 119 tcp opened

Comment 4

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

I'm seeing timeout errors today using the same configuration I was in comment 0. I haven't been in the office since this bug was resolved.

Comment 5

[Ravi Pina [:ravi]]

There is no inter dependency here.  Two unrelated things.

I'm not sure why, but the policy was reverted.  I've put it back in.

[[e-mail]1 ~]# nc -vz -s 10.242.32.6 news.mozilla.org 119
Connection to news.mozilla.org 119 port [tcp/nntp] succeeded!